SherLok Merfy wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, jpkotta wrote:
All it will cost you is time to download it (3 CDs, 650 MB each).
Over phone lines that's about twelve days, so the magazine is probably cheaper. Jenerally, I would say that Linux was born on the net, it grows on the net, and I wouldn't recommend taking anything more than a package at a time from the net. Try a minimalistic distribution. Maybe you can even figure out how to use SRPMS.
Debian distros handle package dependencies much better than Redhat's RPM system does. I think with customization and stuff, you could get it down to a much lower size. For example, an XFractint Linux distro disk doesn't need to have MySQL, Apache, mail servers, development tools like PHP/Python, hordes of games and apps and word processors, KDE or GNOME (IceWM would be plenty, and fast even on slow hardware with little memory), OpenOffice, etc. If then zipped up, I'd think you could get it down a lot smaller. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com