Why does it need that much hard disk space?

[Gregory Nowak]

Don't you mean to say free software?
Greg


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:26:34PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Let's not get into distribution wars again.
> 
> You can install as little or as much of Redhat as you like. It is no
> different then any other distribution in that respect. One of the bigger
> differences between distributions is the package manager. A number of
> distributions including RedHat use RPM as the package manager.
> Similarly, Debian, and I am sure others, use APT, or whatever it is
> called, as their package manager. Granted they are other differences
> between distributions, that I won't get into in this note because I
> don't know of them all. What I will say though, is that before slamming
> a one distribution over another, maybe take a step back and think of the
> other operating system that is made to run on the pc platform that not
> open source. Open source is why Linux is where it is today. Open source
> is why there are so many different distributions. Instead of slamming a
> distribution, or saying that one distribution is better then another,
> why not work towards getting speakup working on the distribution that
> the user brings to the discussion. After all, isn't it better to have
> speakup working with Linux regardless of the distribution? I'd say so!
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
> PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
> Mailto:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:raul at asmodean.net]
> > Sent: 2002 May 08 1:00 PM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space?
> > 
> > 
> > Ann Parsons said the following on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 
> > 02:50:39PM -0400:
> > > Well, if you go with Red Hat, what do you expect?
> > 
> > What do you mean?  Does redhat install 3 gb worth of files?  I don't
> > think it does and I've never installed it.
> > 
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