[buug] 4,096 versions of Windows

[Jon McClintock]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:37:53AM -0700, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> ``If you take all the permutations, then instead of Windows XP Home and Professional, the number of different combinations gets (huge),'' Cherry said. In terms of the time and cost involved, he added, ``You can't support that.''
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> Funny, I think Linux has about that many versions.  And I think it works ok.

jonm at darkhawk:/usr/src/linux$ grep -c CONFIG .config
659

So Linux has at least 2^659 versions. And that's just the kernel. :)

-Jon