Why does it need that much hard disk space?

[Adam Myrow]

If you buy Slackware directly from the web site, you get a fourth CD
called "live."  It's basically a full Linux on CD for demos and what they
call "the ultimate rescue disk."  Other than that, there are only 3 CDS
and you really only need the install one and there are a few interesting
things on contrib.  Oh, Slackware 8.1 is in beta now and it looks like
it's ballooned to 2 CDS.  They are adding some stuff like Logrotate and it
will come with kernel 2.4.18 unless a newer one comes out before it does.