Linux bloating.

[Derek Neighbors]

Language is such a dangerous thing....

The title was "Linux bloating".  This is complete heresy.  I can still 
install a working linux system on a floppy disk.  What the title should 
say is Linux Distros Getting Bloated.

It used to be that the distro's had custom installers where you choose 
what you want, many of them are moving towards options of 'laptop', 
'desktop', 'server' and install the WORLD on you.

In Debian I just do a base install no frills no nothing, then apt-get 
items as I need them.  Seems to work pretty well.  Red Hat used to have 
custom (dont know if they still do), but if so use it and only select what 
you KNOW you use.

-Derek

On 13 Feb 2002, Carl 
Parrish wrote:

> I've been able to get RH 7.2 to about 350MB and I hear there are ways to
> get it smaller. 
> 
> Carl P
> 
> On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 12:51, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > Smallest I've gotten RH 7.2 in is about 700MB, then had to compile a kernel and
> > QT from source and those added about 250MB.  I don't use KDE or Gnome (nice
> > features, but too bloated for an old P150).  I use IceWM and pipe it across my
> > network to the windows boxes thanks to Exceed.  I could get the install smaller,
> > but then I wouldn't be able to compile source code on the box.
> > 
> > Current count is about 280 rpms to get a functional RH Linux distro for me.
> > 
> > > Sound more like your installs are bloated to me.  When you install your
> > > system, only pick the stuff you will actually be using and you will have an
> > > install that is only a couple to a few hundred megs.
> > > I've built servers with mandrake that were under 100 megs, and with mandrake
> > > 8.2 you can have an install that is much smaller than before.
> > > 
> > > Ditch all those LDAP server and news server and video games that require 3D
> > > since you don't have the horse power to play them anyway... etc...etc..
> > >
> > > > Noticed the last couple of installs, that at least
> > > > Mandrake and RH 7.2 are getting bloated.  I had
> > > > trouble fitting them to 2 gig drives.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know where a person could pick up around
> > > > two or three 6 to 8 gig IDE hard drives cheap?
> > > >
> > > > I have an old p166 that won't recognize anything over
> > > > around 8 gig.
> > > >
> > > > Off list would be fine.
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > > Jtannenba@yahoo.com
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