Why does it need that much hard disk space?

[Gregory Nowak]

Please reply to me as well, since I too am interested.
Greg


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:07:15PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi Cecil. How have you used Freebsd and Solaris? Well I know a friend who actually has several Linux boxes and a Solaris machine. Did you use something like Yasr for running on Freebsd? You can reply to me off-list on this. But now you've got me interested! My address is igueths at attbi.com. Hope to hear from you regarding the Freebsd though. 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Cecil H. Whitley <cwhitley at ec.rr.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space?
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > First of all I need to declare my bias.  I selected redhat for my desktop.
> > Now, with that said I must also point out that I also use freebsd, solaris
> > (various versions) and even tried debian.  Why did I choose redhat?  Simple,
> > not very technical, I loaded it on servers at work because Dell supports it.
> > Since I have to work with it at work I might as well use it at home.
> > 
> > Redhat, and probably any distribution of linux can be cut down to a floppy.
> > You can't do that with windows.  In fact, NT/2000/xp take three/four disks
> > just to boot.  Linux also takes a lot less memory to run (and run well I
> > might add).  Redhat distributes several x-windows based front ends (Gnome,
> > KDE, windows maker, etc).  There is a lot of desktop dependant apps which
> > get loaded depending on which front-ends you choose to load.  The important
> > word there is choose.  You can load everything (an actual menu selection),
> > particular catagories, or individual packages.  I believe that this is the
> > same or similar in nearly all distro's.  The easiest way to trim the size of
> > any distribution is to not load x-windows.  That will drastically cut the
> > disk space requirements without removing any functionality you will need.
> > 
> > I guess the short answer is that yes, you can select for 3gb or more of
> > stuff to be loaded, but on windows you can get the same effect (with less
> > functionality) by loading the full operating system (not typical) and
> > netscape, m.s. office, Lotus smartsuite, Lotus Notes, your speech package,
> > Visual "c", Visual C++, CYGWIN, Photoshop, IIS, Exchange, SQL server, and
> > the list goes on and on.  The 5 CD's that make up the RedHat distribution
> > contains much much more than just an OS.  The same goes for Slackware,
> > Debian, and just about any other distribution of Linux (no offense to anyone
> > who's distribution didn't make it in my list, it's just my ignorance).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Cecil
> > 
> > 
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