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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 13:12:05 JST nixCraft 🐧

   The first Linux kernel was tiny: Version 0.01 of the Linux kernel was around 65 kilobytes in size! These days, the kernel is hundreds of megabytes in compressed format. Talk about growing up! 😊

   • Phoenix Gee (phoenixgee@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 13:57:28 JST Phoenix Gee

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     @nixCraft Wait are you talking about the sources or the kernel image? I just looked at a Ubuntu vmlinuz and the thing isn't more than 12MB...

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 14:18:36 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Phoenix Gee

     @phoenixgee I just checked compressed kernel is indeed just 14M in size. Most modern distro pack very little these days and rest is in modules. That dir is huge with all drivers that can be loaded on demand.

   • Phoenix Gee (phoenixgee@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 14:26:56 JST Phoenix Gee

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     @nixCraft Oh yeah true, we're not monolithic. 243M here.

     Well, it was a lot of hours spent on this one over the decades, gotta show some results :D