Yea but the Ununtu minimal install has feck all on it. It doesnt have X or any network stuff.
I run arch Linux and a base(minimal) install runs in at about 110MB. I don’t install stuff I don’t use and run a pretty lean system. With X and FVWM. This comes to about 2GB.
What pisses me off is that I like to use Gedit and Bluefish, both of which are gnome apps and due to the dependency system require me to install half of gnome to make them work. As a rule a reasonably useful system with X and something like Gnome or KDE will weigh in at 2.5GB+
On Thu, 4 May 2006 18:19:45 +0100, Colm Buckley <colm at tuatha.org> wrote:
> On 4 May 2006, at 18:09, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
>> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:57:24PM +0100, Declan Moriarty wrote:
>>>> My mean & lean LFS is well under 2 Gigs before Data. It can be kept
>>> below 500MB by using uClibc instead of Glibc. Distributions typically
>>> come out around 4 Gigs with some amount of redundant stuff aboard.
>>> Try dividing your figures by 10. A minimal install of ubuntu for
>> example
>> occupies as little as 300 Meg, with glibc.
>> You can only get it that low if you have a degree.
>> Colm
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