Why does it need that much hard disk space?

[Alex Snow]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space?


> 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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