From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fe4.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.51] helo=mail4.ec.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 175Yp5-0001O1-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 17:18:07 -0400 Received: from kids ([66.56.241.175]) by mail4.ec.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 8 May 2002 17:18:10 -0400 Message-ID: <005401c1f6d5$f8958520$ab00a8c0@ec.rr.com> From: "Cecil H. Whitley" To: References: <004701c1f6d3$56f650c0$ab00a8c0@ec.rr.com> <009001c1f6d4$54d17f80$02263e18@mycomputer> Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:19:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, Nothing fancy, just use ssh to connect remotely. Also can use a terminal program on the serial port if i'm desperate. Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Gueths" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? 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@attbi.com. Hope to hear from you regarding the Freebsd though. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cecil H. Whitley To: 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup