Linux Is 'Bloated and Huge,' Says Its Creator (Switched)

Sep 24th 2009 4:13PM Mko above makes the point I was going to make, it is mainly the distro's that get noticed as being WAY over-bloated though from Linus' point of view the kernel would look rather bloated compared to what he started with.

I think you need to look at it comparatively. Compared to Windows or Mac OS it is still VERY slim and streamlined. And when you look back to the early versions of Linux it was never the point that it was the MOST streamlined or efficient of all time, it was just that compared to the other major OS' of the time it was better.

Mainly I think that if you drew a line from where (for example) Windows and Linux were 10 years ago, the gap is definitely narrowing which sort of defeats the purpose that it was originally created for.