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teleforcelast Sunday at 2:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

> The overall disk usage for trixie is 403,854,660 kB (403 GB), and is made up of 1,463,291,186 lines of code.

This makes Debian Trixie about 32 times larger than Windows XP with approximately 45 millions lines of code, arguably the best Windows OS ever.

Debian Trixie is released about 24 years after Windows XP.


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3836293648last Sunday at 3:24 PM

Sure, but XP came with minimal amounts of bundled software, that's every package in the debian repo.

CRConradyesterday at 12:46 PM

> Windows XP with approximately 45 millions lines of code, arguably the best Windows OS ever.

Naah. Early(ish) Win7, or maybe even late Vista.