From: keith smith > I agree with bloat. Seems Linux just keeps on growing. Users keep demanding MORE FEATURES, so the space that software requires keeps going up. > I wonder if there is a "thin" Linux. Of course right out of the > box. I have no time to optimize Linux or M$. Of course. However, it'd be missing one or more of the things you really like, and you'd get upset about that. The least bulky distros are probably Arch or Gentoo or Debian, but getting those up probably requires more time than you're willing to spend. As such, you're probably stuck with dealing with a bunch of disk space getting eaten. Let's see, CentOS 5, 600M / , 1.9G /usr , 203M /var , 40M /boot . This is for a production box with some X11 stuff and a few dev libraries and things installed. A CentOS 5 orkstation? 450M / , 4.8G /usr , 152M /var . More dev libraries and a whole bunch more X11 user programs and documents. This is acceptable when regular disks are >= 100G, I think. > I sometime think of the good old days when Linux fit on a handful > of 1.44MB micro floppies. The Good Old Days, when men were real men, women were real women, and real users wrote their XF86Config files by hand using /bin/vi ! And getting sound required sorting through a huge list of hard-to-understand parms for mostly undectable ISA cards! And playing most video required compiling mplayer by hand! Seriously, many many improvements have been made, and if a 2011 user were given a 1999 distro (and 1999 hardware) and made to use it, that user'd have a hissy fit. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss