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[ILUG] Minimal Desktop / Workstation Install [long by now !]

[ILUG] Minimal Desktop / Workstation Install [long by now !]

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Jun 13 15:56:16 IST 2002


Quoting Liam Bedford (lbedford at netnoteinc.com):

> eh? I have an install script that kickstart could reproduce (I do other
> things, so I use my own script), and with kde and all the gnome libs,
> mozilla, X, etc installed, it comes to < 700M. (Of course, I use
> the --exclude-docs flag to rpm, so that saves a bit, and there
> are no man pages).

Seriously, "no manpages" isn't very practical.  If you could figure out
a way to gain just those back, you might be on to something -- but don't
forget that he also wants OpenOffice.org to fit on the same system.

-- 
Cheers,      "On the face of it, Microsoft complaining about the source license 
Rick Moen    used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black."
rick at linuxmafia.com             -- Adam Barr, former Microsoft Corp. programmer




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