from Steven of NZ: > 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?
BSD base system, at least NetBSD and OpenBSD, and I think FreeBSD too, download is about 90 MB in several .tgz files, which includes X Windows but not kernel source. This includes compilers and even some games and man pages. I think the base Slackware and Debian installs don't include compilers or man pages. But I was thinking of a system with a lot of the goodies though not necessarily everything. I don't think a base Slackware install, A series only, would be internettable, and the same would apply to Debian. Base NetBSD system is not really internettable, no ppp, no web browsers, though there is ftp which can be used to install NetBSD under certain circumstances, maybe a cable connection? What does BasicLinux use for POP3, SMTP and NNTP?
