Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: “Linux is bloated.” While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft’s Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft, heft that makes Linux “huge and scary now,” …

Is Linux bloated?

huge and scary” Fans of Linux like to complain that Windows has become a bloated operating system, too fat for its own good. But now the tables have turned: Linus Torvalds, who built the Linux kernel, says that Linux has become so “bloated” that it is now “huge and scary.”

How heavy is the Linux kernel?

An ordinary stable 3* kernel is about 70 mb now. But there are little linux distributions of 30-10 mb with software and other stuff running out of the box.