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My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 14, 2008 18:09 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet) by andikleen
Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

The Fedora/Red Hat approach, with dual packages for everything, generally works but does have its problems; certainly there's a bloat issue and it's easy to pull in 32-bit libraries you don't really need. But the Debian/Ubuntu approach is crippled, making it harder to run 32-bit code.

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My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 14, 2008 18:42 UTC (Mon) by andikleen (subscriber, #39006) [Link]

Disk space is cheap and executable libraries tend to not be that big anyways compared to other
data like graphics etc.. There is no real reason why you can't just install all libraries in
32bit and 64bit versions.

My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 15, 2008 6:17 UTC (Tue) by motk (subscriber, #51120) [Link]

Oh noes! Bloat! A hundred meg of my 500G drive, gone! 

SHAKE ANGRY FIST AT GOD, SCREAM NOOOOO

My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 15, 2008 6:49 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

100 MB is a good estimate. openfire and VMware do not even have any rpm package requirements.
$ (rpm --qf="%{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" -qa "*32bit*"; rpm --qf="%{SIZE}\t%{NAME}@%{ARCH}\n" -qa | grep @i.86) | grep -Pv 'openfire|VMware' | perl -aF'\t' -lne 'END{print$x}$x+=$F[0]' 117166556