From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from babel.hpcc.noaa.gov ([140.90.74.62]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 176EWZ-0003zm-00 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:49:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (jwantz@localhost) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g4AHnne19342 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:49:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:49:49 -0400 (EDT) From: jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Ann amd Toby, Ann, Bill Acker has told you this--and apparently you didn't fully believe him. Redhat has a full text mode installation option--I don't know how more plain this statement can be. Secondly, you can do a custom installation with Redhat which is neither Workstation or Server. I think its unfair to tar Redhat because you had bad experiences with versions many revisions back. Jim On Fri, 10 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2002, Ann Parsons wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I understand, and am probably much mistaken, as I have been corrected > > affore, that RH relies more on graphics than does any of the other > > distros. > > If you think about it, because RH is the one that is used commercially, > for the most part, by people with users to support, then the users are > happier ith the gui, so the gui they get, we may not like it but it's a > fact of life. > > > Cheers. > >