I understand that capabilities grow, and variety of hardware grows, but some differences among distros are a puzzle. Here are selected size differences: OS 11.4 OS 13.1 OS 15.0 OS TW F30 Deb 10 Kernel Version 3.0.101 3.12.67 4.12.14 4.19.12 4.19.13 4.19.37 /boot/vmlinuz 4.7M 6.1M 6.8M 7.8M 8.3M 5.0M /boot/initrd 6.6M 6.9M 8.3M 8.7M 15.5M 7.2M /lib/modules/ 132.7M 152.7M 257.1M 269.0M 62.5M 252.9M 1-Has anyone upstream or sideways done or announced anything intended to shrink installed module sizes by omitting various classes of rarely useds or neededs, or otherwise, in general use distros? 2-Is the SLE connection to kernels in Leap responsible for extra modules, some that otherwise wouldn't be included in a FOSS distro? 3-How does Fedora get away with so small an installed module size in /lib/? 4-How does Debian get away with so much smaller /boot/vmlinuz, and not so much either in its initrd? All the above are using defaults for whatever the initrds include. How to tell whether hostonly is enabled I don't know how to tell when there is no dracut config to be found in /etc/ anywhere. Fedora has a very much larger extra vmlinuz-0 and initramfs-0 pair used for Grub rescue modes. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org