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		blinkingled on Aug 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mac OS X 10.8.1 is out. This has got to be the smallest OS update in recent history - 7.28MB did not feel right!

OlivierLi on Aug 23, 2012 | [–]

Kernel modules are vital and yet can be very small. On Linux at least.

pmjordan on Aug 23, 2012 | [–]

Could be because they dropped support for 32-bit kernels in 10.8, and generally pretty much everything apart from public libraries are 64-bit only.

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