[H-GEN] Computing without GUI

[Jason Henry Parker]

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Darrin Mison <staeci at yahoo.com> writes:

> Seriously though I'm still using rh6.2 cause I like (am used to) RPM
> and a pretty liberal install is only about 600meg.  As opposed to
> Mandrakes Gig.

Yeah, never mind I just installed X, perl, vim, java, netscape pcmcia
services, ppp and emacs on a Debian GNU/Linux box *today* in less than
600MB.  What am I talking about?

Of course, if you want low disk-footprint installs, you don't use
Linux.  Period.

jason
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