I suspect that you are right and that it's the help files etc. rather than the drivers themselves that make up most of the payload, and they do have their own custom GUI. I agree that the Internet these days is a broadband only club, at least where software downloads are concerned, but, I don;'t know, 50MB still seems like an awful lot for something so minor as a mouse driver.
The comparison above wasn't intended to sing the virtues of Linux over Windows. Damn Small Linux is, after all, a hack, and not a fully functional modern Linux distribution. It does, however, still support far more devices than the Logitech drivers. However, here's perhaps a more direct comparison with Microsoft's equivalent drivers for their hardware. MS Intelipoint 6.10 is 6.5MB. MS Intelitype Pro 6.1 is 6.7MB. So the equivalent software from MS, not known themselves for their devotion to frugality when coding, is only 13.2MB.
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Date: 2007-03-25 12:06 pm (UTC)The comparison above wasn't intended to sing the virtues of Linux over Windows. Damn Small Linux is, after all, a hack, and not a fully functional modern Linux distribution. It does, however, still support far more devices than the Logitech drivers. However, here's perhaps a more direct comparison with Microsoft's equivalent drivers for their hardware. MS Intelipoint 6.10 is 6.5MB. MS Intelitype Pro 6.1 is 6.7MB. So the equivalent software from MS, not known themselves for their devotion to frugality when coding, is only 13.2MB.