On Sunday 01 May 2005 01:41 pm, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:26:57PM -0700, T. Joseph CARTER wrote: > > It was absolutely tiny by modern standards, but it was a relatively full > > CD which provided a pretty full system. What it didn't provide was the > > huge redundancy the average linux user associates with "power" because it > > interfered with what the average non-linux user associates with "usable". > > It had more in common with Ubuntu than it would with something like DSL, > > I'd guess. > > you know, the BSDs have operated with this mentality for some time. > > a pretty complete base system that's easy to install (one web server, > one mail server, one inetd, one version of each basic tool, etc) and > packages for extra stuff. > > I remember doing a tiny OpenBSD & gnome install on one of Jamie's > old laptops (~200 MB harddisk IIRC) at a clinic a couple years ago.
and the disk and system still worked last time I had it in that laptop. I bet it still works (but if I remember right, the drive did tend to whine a lot) I dont think we got gnome on it (at that time, it only had 24 megs ram... I use flux/open box on it. ) I did want to get konqueror on it, but it would require a lot of kde to work, and disk space was low. One of the things that i enjoyed with this type of install, was its simplicity, boot from a floppy disk, and untar some files... pretty simple, and straightforward. I think the idea is that once you have a usable system, you can roll your own. Jamie _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
