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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>

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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


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