[ILUG] bloody redhat!!

[lbedford at wbtsystems.com]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 01:25:57PM +0000, Niall wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 lbedford at wbtsystems.com wrote:
>  
> > (The main thing that bugs me personally about RedHat is the
> > fact that doing a reasonably basic install of 6.0/6.1,
> > with the Dev environment on, and kernel development on,
> > is between 250-400 Mb... too big for me
> 
> I hope I'm not coming over as a hardware facist. You can still pick up
> hardware suitable to run a current version of Linux in Buy & Sell for a
> couple of hundred quid. What's too big about 250-400M if you want to have
> a full development and kernel development environment ? 2.2.13 source tree
> is ~80M, and then you've got compiler etc. At current prices, 400M of disk
> space costs a maximum of 10 quid - where's the problem ?
I'm just used to Debian 2.1 which has everything I need in small
manageable parts (I don't like having to install stuff
and then remove the bits I don't want..)

Everytime I install a RedHat system, I find something else that
I never knew existed <g>...

Maybe I'm just strange, but I'm looking at Windows NT -> 2000
(120Mb -> 700Mb+), and getting the same kind of feeling from
RedHat... SuSE is just silly.. anything that comes on
a DVD just does my head in...

L.
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