经典书籍翻译——深入理解Linux内核16

Linux runs on low-end, inexpensive hardware platforms. You are able to build a network server using an old Intel 80386 system with 4 MB of RAM. Linux is powerful. Linux systems are very fast, because they fully exploit the features of the hardware components. The main Linux goal is efficiency, and indeed many design choices of commercial variants, like the STREAMS I/O subsystem, have been rejected by Linus because of their implied performance penalty. Linux developers are excellent programmers. Linux systems are very stable; they have a very low failure rate and system maintenance time. The Linux kernel can be very small and compact. It is possible to fit a kernel image, including a few system programs, on just one 1.44 MB floppy disk. As far as we know, none of the commercial Unix variants is able to boot from a single floppy disk. Linux is highly compatible with many common operating systems. Linux lets you directly mount filesystems for all versions of MS-DOS and Microsoft Window