I thought he was full of it too. When I first started using mandrake
(5.2 I think?) I got a working linux system in a 500 M partition with
enough room in ~/abe to keep me happy.
Now, if you just say yes to everything then you are going to get one
hell of an install! But my favorite passtime with my linux box for the
first few months was to sit down and try all those programs. Fire em up
and see what happens. It was great fun and a good way to get
comfortable with the new environment too.
Give me emacs and vim and joe and pico and so on and so forth over
notepad and wordpad anyday. Xmms, grip, freeamp, kmp3, and so on over
windows media player. I think you all get the point ;-)
That article is just more FUD.
Abe
Adrian Smith wrote:
>
> quote from the artical:
> The week before Christmas, CNET News.com editor Todd Volz blasted most of the major
>commercial distributions, including Mandrakesoft, for shipping bloated product. While
>most of the bloat comes in the area of developer-oriented features, i.e. mulitple
>compilers, screen setting controls etc., Voltz viewed the business community's
>reluctance to slim things down for the regular user a distressing sign.
>
> quote from adrian:
> where is my shotgun?
>
> mandrake comes on 2 CDs with:
> 1 OS
> 10 window managers
> 100+ programs
>
> winsux comes on 1 CD with
> 1 OS
>
> bloat? where's the bloat.... i think someone missed the bloat.....
>
> Adrian Smith
> 'de telepone dude
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