On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 11:15 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 04:14:05 Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:37 -0700, Jake Peavy wrote: > > > Linux bloat continues unabated. > > > > ---- > > I think... > > > > - that you would have to have kde-pim package installed to bloat here > > > > - agreed on bloat but considering that my Acer Aspire One is 10 Gb > > Windows installation and 5 Gb Fedora 10 and I have a lot more 'stuff' > > installed in Fedora. > > > Agreed. My other laptop has to dual-boot with XP. However, I only require it > for one application. I partitioned it with 8GB for XP system (no data) and to > my surprise the most basic install filled it to danger point. I could > certainly run a modern linux distro, with more applications, in the same > space. > > More importantly, in linux, if you think something does install too much, you > do have a choice. ---- 9.7 Gb on Windows XP... - WinXP SP3 - AVG Anti-virus (free version) - OpenOffice 3.0 - iTunes - FileSync (to sync my iTunes music directory from server to my 'music drive' (fat volume not included in the 10Gb and accessible from Linux too) - Firefox - Thunderbird - Acrobat Reader - Removed trial version of MS Office, MacAfee Internet Security I think that is sort of a Windows minimum myself. 3.9 Gb on Fedora 10 - GNOME & KDE full packages - Big installation of games, OpenOffice, Scribus, Webdev, Acrobat Reader, FlashPlayer, Rhythmbox, mplayer, gxine I appreciate the notion of bloat but on a 'desktop' system, I am less concerned with bloat then I am on a 'server' system. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
