On 14 Feb 2010, dom at latter.org stated: > Some useful data, thanks. Interesting that you can still squeeze it down > to 1.4MB. I didn't expect it to end up that small. I'm not sure how it did... > IIRC for a long time the aim was to keep the kernel small > enough to fit on a floppy. That code (the floppy bootloader and so on) was dropped in 2.4, IIRC.