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		mibbitier on Sept 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux d... Bandwidth is cheap. Memory and disk space are cheap. I think the days when it mattered are really coming to an end personally. The amount of space (memory/disk/bandwidth) taken up by binary code is minuscule compared with data/video/streaming/games/etc etc

option_greek on Sept 4, 2012 | [–]

Not on every system. Not even on most systems. Embedded, mobile etc still benefit from low distro size.

grimboy on Sept 4, 2012 | [–]

Cache memory is still not cheap.

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