From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from saidin.asmodean.net ([216.254.114.61]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 175XBm-0005Hm-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 15:33:26 -0400 Received: from raul by saidin.asmodean.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 175XBJ-0006sz-00 for ; Wed, 08 May 2002 14:32:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:32:56 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? Message-ID: <20020508193256.GK25278@asmodean.net> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: "Raul A. Gallegos" 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: Just for the record it was not me who slammed on redhat. Although I don't use it I have nothing against it. If anyone wants to make claims on installing a lot of packages one may not need the only one I've seen do that is slackware. I'm not slamming on slackware either, I use slackware still and am very happy wit it. However it is a fact that slackware will install a lot of programs and packages one may not need. Dawes, Stephen said the following on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:26:34PM -0600: > 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! > >