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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@attbi.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space?
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:07:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009001c1f6d4$54d17f80$02263e18@mycomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004701c1f6d3$56f650c0$ab00a8c0@ec.rr.com>

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 <cwhitley@ec.rr.com>
To: <speakup@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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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Cris Ali
 ` Buddy Brannan
   ` Raul A. Gallegos
   ` Ann Parsons
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Igor Gueths
       ` Ann Parsons
     ` Buddy Brannan
     ` Igor Gueths
       ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Toby Fisher
       ` Buddy Brannan
         ` Ann Parsons
         ` Toby Fisher
           ` Toby Fisher
       ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
         ` Ann Parsons
           ` TALMAGE
             ` Toby Fisher
         ` Toby Fisher
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205100357420.9750-100000@frontdoor.g0ucu.fr eeserve.co.uk>
       ` TALMAGE
         ` Toby Fisher
   ` Igor Gueths
     ` Few More questions! Cris Ali
       ` Alex Snow
       ` Raul A. Gallegos
         ` Igor Gueths
       ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Why does it need that much hard disk space? Raul A. Gallegos
 ` Ann Parsons
   ` Raul A. Gallegos
     ` Ann Parsons
       ` Toby Fisher
         ` jwantz
           ` Ann Parsons
     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205100415120.9750-100000@frontdoor.g0ucu.fr eeserve.co.uk>
         ` TALMAGE
           ` Toby Fisher
             ` Alex Snow
               ` Toby Fisher
                 ` Charles Hallenbeck
                   ` Gregory Nowak
                     ` Charles Hallenbeck
                     ` Adam Myrow
                       ` Steve Holmes
                   ` Steve Holmes
   ` Alex Snow
 ` Gregory Nowak
 ` 'Georgina'
   ` Kerry Hoath
 ` Cecil H. Whitley
   ` Igor Gueths [this message]
     ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Alex Snow
     ` Cecil H. Whitley
       ` Gregory Nowak
       ` Igor Gueths
         ` Alex Snow
 ` Alex Snow
 Dawes, Stephen
 ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Raul A. Gallegos
   ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Igor Gueths
   ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Ann Parsons
 ` Toby Fisher
 Dawes, Stephen
 cwhitley

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