windows bloated? nahh......

[HPC GUY]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8382

win98 se shrunk down to 40mb

[microbob]

I dunno.  As applications and OSs get feature rich, seems to me the next step is small, light and tight code.  I find myself using fewer and fewer applications over the years (seems like I wanted to play with everything when I was young, heh) and the ones I use often just get fatter and fatter.

Very soon the base OS and productivity applications will be $0 dollar commodities.  After that we'll start seeing refactoring that speeds up apps, removes junk code, but offer few new features.

Soon after that we'll get $99 PCs.

[slave]

Dat's nothing, I can get Linux to fit on a floppy disk.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

[microbob]

Funny you mention that, I tried to use that rescue diskette just yesterday.  Ever tried to recover a root password on Mandrake box that was installed in 'paranoid' mode?  Blech.

Unfortunately I had reiserfs installed and it isn't supported in that kernel.

Any any case, I'm just babbling....nice set of tools on the disk though.

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by HPC GUY:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8382

win98 se shrunk down to 40mb

one thing that cheered me up was this advert which appeared on the page you linked to (about windows) when i clicked your link:


Installing Linux -
Blindingly Easy

[ March 20, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: Member # 81 ]

[AdmiralAK]

lol, QNX fits on a floppy and you get networking, a browser, GUI and text editor  

[Kintaro]

Linux fits on my hard disk, I get networking, true multiuser, multitasking, a GUI, graphical web browsers, compilers, desktops, mail clients, newsreaders, chat programs, graphics editors, text editors, office programs, games, and other stuff.

And that works for me!

[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by Microbob:
Funny you mention that, I tried to use that rescue diskette just yesterday.  Ever tried to recover a root password on Mandrake box that was installed in 'paranoid' mode?  Blech.

Unfortunately I had reiserfs installed and it isn't supported in that kernel.

Any any case, I'm just babbling....nice set of tools on the disk though.

try booting a slackware cd, and you wont be able to recover the password because its in md5, if you use a program to make an new password into a md5 key then its just putting it in the /etc/shadow (or somthing)

[choasforages]

yes, it is somewhat widely known that qnx will fit on a floppy comfortably. and it is quite portable. i think before any programer can use a modern computer they should learn to program on cramped environments and learn to do it bug free.