[wplug] Low system requirements distro

[Matthew Danish]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:35:10AM -0400, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> Matthew Danish wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 07:25:41PM -0400, R.E.Coutch wrote:
> >> Red Hat and SuSE do.
> >> Just do a minimum install (around 400 Mb - I think) and add on any
> >> packages you need.
> > 
> > "minimum install"?  400MB?
> 	When the current smallest IDE drive you can purchase is 15 or 20 GB
> - yeah, it's no big deal.  Amazingly, there are many Linux users who don't
> want to screw with a system for 2 days after a 75MB install to get it to a
> reasonably functional state (GUI, ability to compile, work on an "office"
> doc, print) - they actually want to do things on it right away.
> 	The current (Gnome, KDE), XFree, OpenOffice, CUPS, and kernel source
> total _well_ over 250MB - I don't why 400MB is such a "bloated number".

Why does a "Telnet station" need XFree, Gnome/KDE, OpenOffice, CUPS, and
kernel source installed?  A Pentium 100 couldn't even run most of that
software.

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