We're getting bloated, yes it's a problem. I'd love to say we have a plan. I mean...

We're getting bloated, yes it's a problem. I'd love to say we have a plan. I mean, sometimes it's a bit sad and we're definitely not the streamlined hyper-efficient kernel that I had envisioned 15 years ago. The kernel is huge and bloated, and our icache footprint is scary. I mean, there is no question about that. And whenever we add a new feature, it only gets worse.

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This quote is 13 years old btw. Install OpenBSD

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Just config and compile it yourself you dumbfuck

>compile your own kernel
>shrink down its size by 95%
>not bloated anymore

"Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.” As for Linus Torvalds, who created Linux and oversees development, De Raadt says, “I don’t know what [Linus's] focus is at all anymore, but it isn’t quality.”

how bloated is the default configuration? (make defconfig or whatever)

There is no default
Almost every distro developers tweakthe kernels they release themselves

i'm talking about the config you get when you download the kernel sources directly from kernel.org, cd into the directory the source files are in, and type "make defconfig"

>config you get when you download the kernel sources
There is none

Install Gentoo