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From: Jason <
jkenner@mindspring.com>
To: <
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Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrredhat
> Brian Cluff wrote:
> >
> > You have to get the kernel sources to get the source code, if you just
get
> > the kernel RPM thats all you get is a binary. Thats really the way that
you
> > want it, because the source code for the kernel is around 112 megs right
> > now, and if you just want a working system for a firwall or something
like
> > that, you might only have 100 megs worth of space on your storage medium
for
> > the whole system.
>
> is the current kernel that big BEFORE compiling??? I just did a du -sc
> * in /usr/src and noticed the following:
>
> 66440 linux-2.2.14
> 74866 linux-2.2.16
>
>
> This is AFTER I have compiled these, and then proceeded to NOT do a
> "make clean". 2.2.16 is only 74MB even with all the .o files...
> without the .o output, and after gzip, the kernels are a much smaller
> and easier to download size:
>
> 15918652 Jan 10 2000 linux-2.2.14.tar.gz
> 17106471 Jul 29 10:46 linux-2.2.16.tar.gz
>
> 17 megs.. seems almost svelte compared to 74 or 112...
>
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