I have no idea who wrote the remark attributed to me in this quoted message,
but I surely didn't.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Finnegan" <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: Re:linux in 6gb
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Bill Pechter wrote:
>
> > > > Rumor has it that James B. DiGriz may have mentioned these words:
> > > > >Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> > > > [no room on the puny 6G HD for Linux, tho... it's fully Linux
certified as
> > > > well...]
> >
> > 6G... I get OS/2, Win3.1, Lotus SmartSuite, PC Dos7, and Linux or FreeBSD
and
> > X and OpenOffice in 4gb without disk compression on an IBM 760XL laptop.
> >
> > Linux is all in how you install it. Default's a pig. (Especially Mandrake
> > and Redhat...)
>
> Gee, Dick, then I have no idea on how I got Linux installed on this 200M
> HDD in my 486 here. Especially considering that 16M of that is swap
> space. Amazingly enough I still have about 60M free space...
>
> For a more suitable install, I can easily install everything I really use
> (between X windows and a few apps, gaim for IM, kernel source so I can
> recompile my kernel, gcc and related stuff) in 1G or less of space.
>
> If you're tight on space, just don't use anything with a nifty graphical
> installer... those distros tend to bloat out more than things like Debian
> or Slackware (or *BSD).
>
> -- Pat
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 24 2002 - 22:12:37 BST