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by lproven 1272 days ago
I wouldn't have thought so, no.

Linux is a huge OS by the standards of BeOS and Haiku, with an early-1970s design and layers and layers of legacy cruft between the kernel and the user.

Dr Tanenbaum called it obsolete even 30 years ago: https://www.edn.com/linux-is-obsolete-thread-is-started-janu...

... and he had a point then.
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LeFantome 1271 days ago
The kernel is not huge though. Even a modern Linux kernel runs on really, really resource limited hardware ( eg. embedded ). As said above, it is all the other crap that takes up memory and slows it down ( and makes it useful of course ).

It is not the Linux kernel that makes the Linux Desktop so much heavier than Haiku though.

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lproven 1269 days ago
No, that is true and a fair call.

Saying that, the first machine I tried (and failed) to install Slackware 1 on was I think a 486 with 8MB of RAM, and I am not sure 21st century Linux will fit on that...

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