Observational humor

[gboyce-qL0WqcyiFk9Wk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Gregory Boyce)]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Gregory Boyce wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>
>> I mean come on? How much faster are systems today than 10 years ago? Has
>> the Linux kernel REALLY grown that much?
>
> I was curious, so I downloaded some example kernels.
>
> The last stable kernel release in 1999 was the 2.0.38 kernel (2.4 didn't come 
> out until 2001).  BZ2 compressed it was 5.8MB.  Uncompressed it was 33MB.

I really don't know how I missed the entire 2.2 kernel series here :)