[wplug] I'm a Linux whimp (need kernel help)

[Jonathan Billings]

On 8/15/05, Poyner, Brandon <bpoyner at ccac.edu> wrote:
> I have seen userland Linux in general becoming far too bloated without
> adding any real new features.  The newest libraries are sacrificing
> memory/storage for speed.  Even very simple things like /usr/bin/yes
> have increased nearly 50% since RHEL 8.0.  Don't get me started on how
> little disk space you could install earlier versions on.
> 
> RH8.0  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 10488 Aug 29  2002 /usr/bin/yes
> RH9    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 11100 Oct 29  2003 /usr/bin/yes
> FC2    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 14532 May  4  2004 /usr/bin/yes
> FC3    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 15216 Oct  5  2004 /usr/bin/yes
> RHEL 4 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 15216 Feb 22 11:18 /usr/bin/yes

I don't have enough time to track down the source for the old and new
'yes', but I'm guessing the change in size is largely due to the
compiler and compiler options used.

Also, I believe that adding SELinux support will increase the size on
the filesystem, not by much but enough that tiny programs like 'yes'
seem larger.


-- 
  Jonathan Billings
jsbillings at gmail.com