On 2014-12-16 16:45, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 16 December 2014, Chris Murphy sent:
> Android 7.61MB. This just displays them, there's no creation or
> modification as far as I'm aware. So it's possible most of the code
> complexity is in the creation and modification.
>
> The point is that as any software becomes more capable it necessarily
> gets bigger. It gets more capable because more people are using,
> supporting, and coding it. And users are continuously asking for new
> features and that means it's going to get bigger.
>
> So I'm suggesting any successful PDF creator/modifier is going to be a
> big binary.
But when one application gets as big as an entire operating system, or
even bigger?! I can't believe that a well designed application should
need to be that bloated. And it's only a document handler, not a bloody
virtual reality flight simulator.
Have to remember that an application will offer much more than the OS.
The OS is a base and the graphics is built onto the base.
In comparison to Windows 8.1, Linux (Fedora 19) with all applications is
still very small. My wife's laptop with a 100G Windows partition is
full. My full / is only 27G including all applications.
A base terminal OS will be very small if you want it to be.
Robin
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