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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar by lmm on Monday August 20, 2012 @06:22PM (#4410093) 

  arcueid ~ $ du -hs /usr/src
  728M    /usr/src
  arcueid ~ $ du -hs /usr/src/contrib/
  307M    /usr/src/contrib/
So actually almost half of the FreeBSD OS is "random tools by various people thrown together".

Compared to that, in something like Debian the GNU tools, designed and built by the GNU with the intention to form a complete OS, probably constitute a greater proportion of the core OS.

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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar by papsosouid on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @10:19AM (#4412782)
Going by the size of the source code, including the configure scripts, makefiles, etc for other operating systems is a rather disingenuous way to measure.
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Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar by lmm on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @11:22AM (#4413071)
It was the simplest 30-second way to compare I could think of. If you have a more accurate measure then by all means post your results.
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