From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=linserver.romualt.dhs.org) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 175XAz-0005HY-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 15:32:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 1534 invoked by uid 1003); 8 May 2002 19:31:55 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:31:55 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? Message-ID: <20020508143155.A1530@uic.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen.Dawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:26:34PM -0600 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: Don't you mean to say free software? Greg On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:26:34PM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote: > Let's not get into distribution wars again. > > You can install as little or as much of Redhat as you like. It is no > different then any other distribution in that respect. One of the bigger > differences between distributions is the package manager. A number of > distributions including RedHat use RPM as the package manager. > Similarly, Debian, and I am sure others, use APT, or whatever it is > called, as their package manager. Granted they are other differences > between distributions, that I won't get into in this note because I > don't know of them all. What I will say though, is that before slamming > a one distribution over another, maybe take a step back and think of the > other operating system that is made to run on the pc platform that not > open source. Open source is why Linux is where it is today. Open source > is why there are so many different distributions. Instead of slamming a > distribution, or saying that one distribution is better then another, > why not work towards getting speakup working on the distribution that > the user brings to the discussion. After all, isn't it better to have > speakup working with Linux regardless of the distribution? I'd say so! > > > > Steve Dawes > PH: (403) 268-5527. > Mailto: sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:raul@asmodean.net] > > Sent: 2002 May 08 1:00 PM > > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? > > > > > > Ann Parsons said the following on Wed, May 08, 2002 at > > 02:50:39PM -0400: > > > Well, if you go with Red Hat, what do you expect? > > > > What do you mean? Does redhat install 3 gb worth of files? I don't > > think it does and I've never installed it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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