On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 some message from Steven appeared before me saying,
>> Sorry, I'm not cranky. But I have been looking for a
>> Linux distri that I could consider trying and so far,
>> they are all worse than Windows as far as bloat goes.
>Most Linux distros are written to compete with Windows,
>so they tend to throw in the "kitchen sink". For a
>bloatless Linux, get Slackware 3.x and install just
>the important stuff. I recommend these:
>----------------------------------------------------
>A series: just the required packages, no options
>AP series: just groff, man pages
>N series: just tcpip, ppp, lynx, pine
>----------------------------------------------------
>This will give you a pretty powerful CLI Linux in
>under 30meg of HDD space.
I just installed debian under 16 megs.. with al those nice apps ;)
>If you want smaller than this, I've further stripped
>down my Slackware to under 8meg of HDD space. It
>includes all the necessary binaries/libraries plus
>man pages, TCP/IP, dial-up ppp, lynx and pico. The
>whole filesystem zips up into a 3meg tarball.
The only thing i hate about slackware is uuhh what do i hate about it
uh.. actually nothing, but i just prefer debian ;)
>> And not trivial to get running either.
>True. The first-time newbie install can be a challenge.
first-time newbie's should use corel.. yes it is buggy yes it is
bloated.. but it's the most easy to use..
>> The friendliest one found so far is Redhat
>The easiest to install are Caldera and Corel.
agree
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