On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 12:51, Jim Sibley wrote: > > Of course I insist on installing everything because my > > users are developers and they do ALL of the things > > that you describe, including using the zLinux KDE as a > > driver for an aix workstation and exploring and > > modifying the source code for the various products > > installed. > > In which case, your grousing about the bloating size of L/390 > distributions makes no sense. If you need all the new stuff that's > going in to it, then you need more disk space. You can't put ten pounds > of stuff in a five-pound sack. It's up to you whether you use larger > devices, use LVM, use the zFCP driver, or subdivide your installation > into multiple smaller partitions. Each has advantages and > disadvantages. Myself, I'd say that if these are development, not > production, machines, then I'd just use bigger devices--a 3390-9 should
;-) To a developer, development is production;-) -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
