[ILUG] From the register. XP machine rooted in 200 seconds.

[Liam Bedford]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:51 +0000, Gareth Eason wrote:
> 	This was debated briefly on #ilug...
> 
> 	In brief, please compare like with like:
> 
> 	Windows provides you with an OS + a few utilities.
> 
> 	Linux (FC3 in your example) most likely provided you with a compiler or 
> two, graphics editing packages, audio playback and recording packages, 
> an office suite, servers for DHCP, DNS, SSH, mail, web, ntp, nntp, etc. 
> (as well as the clients, which windows provides you with some of...), 
> full multi-lingual documentation for a lot of this (windows has 
> different version for different languages), etc., etc., etc. - all of 
> which would have been updated as well as the kernel and OS (about the 
> only significant components windows provides you with.)
> 
> 	So yeah, I'm personally not surprised that the FC3 updates are larger 
> in size than some windows XP service pack. RedHat have a LOT more ground 
> to cover.
> 
okay, so this is a fairly similar list (I'm taking abiword to be
equivalent to wordpad, which isn't fair on abiword, but anyway).
5150579 Nov 24 17:44 abiword-2.0.12-7.fc3.i386.rpm
309319 Dec  1 01:24 alsa-lib-1.0.6-5.i386.rpm
1136495 Nov  8 16:13 arts-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm
1823312 Nov  8 19:36 bash-3.0-18.i386.rpm
8508962 Nov 11 20:14 firefox-1.0-2.fc3.i386.rpm
3592874 Nov 15 17:30 gaim-1.0.3-0.FC3.i386.rpm
68765 Nov 20 02:41 gamin-0.0.17-1.FC3.i386.rpm
62751 Nov  8 15:05 hotplug-2004_04_01-8.i386.rpm
1079200 Nov  8 15:05 initscripts-7.93.5-1.i386.rpm
225439 Nov  8 15:06 ipsec-tools-0.3.3-2.i386.rpm
174060 Nov 11 15:06 iptables-1.2.11-3.1.FC3.i386.rpm
115421 Nov 11 15:06 iptables-ipv6-1.2.11-3.1.FC3.i386.rpm
16272176 Nov 22 04:26 kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i586.rpm
2080231 Nov 22 04:27 kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.noarch.rpm
15690181 Nov 22 04:26 kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i586.rpm
64673 Nov 12 21:11 libselinux-1.19.1-3.i386.rpm
55838 Nov 24 16:41 libselinux-1.19.1-8.i386.rpm
219839 Nov 17 19:58 libxml-1.8.17-12.i386.rpm
248147 Nov 19 21:49 man-1.5o1-7.i386.rpm
2749201 Nov 19 22:34 man-pages-pl-0.23-4.noarch.rpm
46415 Nov 12 21:10 policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.i386.rpm
960442 Nov 30 16:19 prelink-0.3.3-0.fc3.i386.rpm
154274 Nov 22 21:08 redhat-menus-3.7-2.2.fc3.noarch.rpm
133834 Nov 19 17:50 rhgb-0.16.1-1.FC3.i386.rpm
13937371 Nov 29 20:25 samba-3.0.9-1.fc3.i386.rpm
2674283 Nov 29 20:25 samba-client-3.0.9-1.fc3.i386.rpm
5292414 Nov 29 20:25 samba-common-3.0.9-1.fc3.i386.rpm
6883164 Nov 29 20:25 samba-swat-3.0.9-1.fc3.i386.rpm
62022 Nov 24 16:42 selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.34.noarch.rpm
495038 Nov 10 20:50 shadow-utils-4.0.3-40.i386.rpm
389990 Nov 19 21:46 slang-1.4.9-13.i386.rpm
330015 Nov 18 22:26 sound-juicer-0.5.14-1.FC3.0.i386.rpm
613955 Nov 28 20:22 system-config-date-1.7.13-0.fc3.1.noarch.rpm
219237 Nov 23 16:05 system-config-display-1.0.24-1.noarch.rpm
196922 Nov 23 18:08 system-config-samba-1.2.22-0.fc3.1.noarch.rpm
227262 Nov 24 17:44 system-config-securitylevel-1.4.18-2.i386.rpm
214742 Nov 24 17:44 system-config-securitylevel-tui-1.4.18-2.i386.rpm
281464 Nov 10 16:35 system-config-users-1.2.27-0.fc3.1.noarch.rpm
302300 Nov 18 19:31 system-config-users-1.2.28-0.fc3.1.noarch.rpm
633137 Nov 17 17:33 udev-039-10.FC3.2.i386.rpm
94280 Nov  8 19:05 wireless-tools-27-0.pre25.3.i386.rpm
1476000 Nov  8 19:38 words-3.0-2.noarch.rpm
13636616 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
370124 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
428359 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
1133955 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
1566279 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
1677655 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
247463 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
6301811 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
283827 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
2653551 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
8115257 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
498066 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
321542 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-twm-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
261008 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
329000 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
296727 Nov 17 20:02 xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
116243 Nov  8 22:35 zip-2.3-26.3.i386.rpm

which totals up to about 130354Kb, or 127MB in, what, less than a month.

L.
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