Why does it need that much hard disk space?

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Just for the record it was not me who slammed on redhat.  Although I
don't use it I have nothing against it.  If anyone wants to make claims
on installing a lot of packages one may not need the only one I've seen
do that is slackware.  I'm not slamming on slackware either, I use
slackware still and am very happy wit it.  However it is a fact that
slackware will install a lot of programs and packages one may not need.

Dawes, Stephen said the following on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:26:34PM -0600:
> 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!
> 
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