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LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat

LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat

Posted Oct 2, 2009 0:25 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat by flewellyn
Parent article: LinuxCon: Kernel roundtable covers more than just bloat

Linus was talking about some kind of bloat that makes the kernel slower. I don't think removing device driver or filesystem driver modules from the disk or configuring out most of the configurable features speeds things up.


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