Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 22:36:55 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We're either behind, or ahead, I can't tell Message-ID: <4.1.19981103223440.00a91340@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <m0zarR8-000WyaC@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199811032021.OAA25292@PeeCee.tbe.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 02:08 AM 11/4/98 +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >In article <199811032021.OAA25292@PeeCee.tbe.com>, >David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com> wrote: > >> http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html says a full Linux distribution >> has ~10 million lines of code. > >"A full Linux distribution" is somewhat ill-defined. It could mean >something like FreeBSD, or it could mean something like FreeBSD plus all >ports. Or something arbitrary in between. > >BTW, Linux 2.0.33 minus arch/{alpha,m68k,mips,ppc,sparc} turns in at >787531 lines. > >-- >Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > See another pointless homepage at <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/>. > Or it could be someone trying to BS in order to gain power over those who wouldn't bother to count.. :-) High numbers can be intimidating sometimes. As it goes, most of the people I work with would be IMPRESSED with the number of lines like "Wow, that must mean it can do a lot", instead of like "Oh yeah, it's unstreamlined bullshit"... Sometimes it's good to work with people that just use the machines and don't care about the behind the scenes stuff. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.1.19981103223440.00a91340>