The linux kernel is so bloated. Over 2 million lines of code are added every single year and this is not a slowing trend. This is not sustainable. Suckless devs should write a kernel, lol.
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you can configure the kernel modules yourself 路 2 years ago
small sidenote, a lot of that new code is related to hardware. at least I think it was? if that was the case removing that would remove your choices for devices. a bad thing imho 路 2 years ago
@comatoast mostly Devuan and Debian, and a bit of FreeBSD 路 2 years ago
agreed - more kiss less cve - tech industry works against this by designing incompatibilities or by just being plain wrong (e.g. cpu bugs) 路 2 years ago
@Digbat: That does really matter to the end user. I mean I get what you are saying, but, more code means more CVE's. 路 2 years ago
of those lines - how many are pure kernel ?- how many related to hardware (continually changing, old hardware still used)? more use cases may inevitably lead to bloat? 路 2 years ago
@gnuuserland What do you use? 路 2 years ago
Oh you said there not this. Ignore my stupidity. (: 路 2 years ago
For me the Linux kernel is like those old whales full of parasites on their skin, where the parasites are all the blob binaries that are shipped with the kernel by default. 路 2 years ago
@Jeafff Is it? I was just saying. I have been debating on switching to freebsd for a while I think if things keep going the way they are going in linux I am not going to have a choice. 路 2 years ago