Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Typical BSD install is much smaller than typical Linux install.
What do you mean by "typical" Linux? RedHat? SuSE? Mandrake? The base Slackware and Debian installs are less than 40mb. How does that compare to BSD? > You stil need to install some packages to make it usable for > the Internet and other things. Same for Slackware and Debian. Extra packages are installed on top of the base installation. RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake are different. They do a relatively complete installation automatically, thereby obviating the need for the user to decide which packages (and dependencies) to install. This is much easier for a newbie (as long as he has adequate hardware for the installation wizard). There are more than 100 different Linux distributions and there are enormous differences between them. Some are big, some are small, some are easy, some are hard, some are designed for super-computers, some are designed for embedded devices. You can't point to one distribution and say "This is the typical Linux." There isn't even a "typical" Linux kernel. For example, there are significant differences between a 2.0 kernel compiled for a 486sx and a 2.4 kernel compiled for a multi-CPU server. Which of those is "typical"? Cheers, Steven
