using the expert mode on the install, my package install was 347.2mb.
That includes KDE2 with Koffice the network stuuf. Blackbox. Abiword and
all the other stuff that is needed.
After adding a bunch of updated and stuff from the unsupported dir it
whent up to 422.7 mb.
Now mandrake make it so easy to add/remove packages that when I need to
compile a program from source, I install those packages then and remove
them when I am finshed.
Mark Hillary
Registered Linux User 200755
eryl wrote:
> john rigby wrote:
>
>
>> The 99.99% of people out in the Cyberbog that Linux NEEDS to
>> reach/convert to save us all from Bill, do not need now, in the
>> future, ever, ANY Development Tools.
>>
>
> I agree. That's been one of the problems I have with linux. When I
> hand a linux disk to one of my Windows using friends to try, I tell them
> that the minimum workstation GUI install will take about 1.5 gigabytes.
> Everyone gives me the "Huh". Why? Because Windoze 98, with office and
> a bunch of other programs takes about 600 meg. The distros need
> something like a "Minimal GUI Install" that includes KDE office, One
> text editor, one file manager, etc. Everything should be available, but
> face it--for these newbies it's not necessary. Once they find out that
> they really like using linux, then they have room to experiment. My Mom
> does not need 5 different terminals or 6 window managers, and she will
> never have any use for developmental tools.
