Hi Cecil. How have you used Freebsd and Solaris? Well I know a friend who actually has several Linux boxes and a Solaris machine. Did you use something like Yasr for running on Freebsd? You can reply to me off-list on this. But now you've got me interested! My address is igueths at attbi.com. Hope to hear from you regarding the Freebsd though. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cecil H. Whitley <cwhitley@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Why does it need that much hard disk space? > Hi, > First of all I need to declare my bias. I selected redhat for my desktop. > Now, with that said I must also point out that I also use freebsd, solaris > (various versions) and even tried debian. Why did I choose redhat? Simple, > not very technical, I loaded it on servers at work because Dell supports it. > Since I have to work with it at work I might as well use it at home. > > Redhat, and probably any distribution of linux can be cut down to a floppy. > You can't do that with windows. In fact, NT/2000/xp take three/four disks > just to boot. Linux also takes a lot less memory to run (and run well I > might add). Redhat distributes several x-windows based front ends (Gnome, > KDE, windows maker, etc). There is a lot of desktop dependant apps which > get loaded depending on which front-ends you choose to load. The important > word there is choose. You can load everything (an actual menu selection), > particular catagories, or individual packages. I believe that this is the > same or similar in nearly all distro's. The easiest way to trim the size of > any distribution is to not load x-windows. That will drastically cut the > disk space requirements without removing any functionality you will need. > > I guess the short answer is that yes, you can select for 3gb or more of > stuff to be loaded, but on windows you can get the same effect (with less > functionality) by loading the full operating system (not typical) and > netscape, m.s. office, Lotus smartsuite, Lotus Notes, your speech package, > Visual "c", Visual C++, CYGWIN, Photoshop, IIS, Exchange, SQL server, and > the list goes on and on. The 5 CD's that make up the RedHat distribution > contains much much more than just an OS. The same goes for Slackware, > Debian, and just about any other distribution of Linux (no offense to anyone > who's distribution didn't make it in my list, it's just my ignorance). > > Regards, > > Cecil > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
