Why does it need that much hard disk space?

[Dawes, Stephen]

No "open source" is the right term.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Nowak [mailto:gnowak1 at uic.edu]
> Sent: 2002 May 08 1:32 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space?
> 
> 
> 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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