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I'll explain:I'll explain:Posted Oct 24, 2006 21:19 UTC (Tue) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)In reply to: I'll explain: by nix Parent article: GPLv3: What the Hackers Said (Linux Journal)
Actually, libstdc++-4.1.1 is only 24MB of uncompressed source code. The vast majority of the 256MB gcc source is the compiler itself, the java runtime, fortran, and ada junk, i.e. stuff that you probably wouldn't have installed on a server (unless you are using gcj in your webapps, of course).
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I'll explain: Posted Oct 25, 2006 7:16 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] And linux's 229MB contain 90% of junk not needed for your server as well (drivers for the things you'll never see installed on that server, filesystems not seen in the wild for years, etc).
I'll explain: Posted Oct 25, 2006 16:09 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] That's what my line counts corresponded to. I didn't just du the entire GCC source tree :) that would obviously give ridiculous results.
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