[KLUG Members] RedHat 7.3 Available - on CD from KLUG!

[Bruce Smith]

> > I know, I know.  Bloat is a fact of life with UNIX.
> 
> Is it?  My Debian Stable machine, with GUI and a few small frills,
> weighs in at about 393 MB.  My Debian Unstable machine with tons of
> extra stuff (database with data, boatloads of perl modules, kernel
> source code, other development stuff, Enlightenment window manager)
> takes up 1.7 GB.

The last time I downloaded it, the Debian distribution was also 
THREE CD's.  Same as Redhat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2, Lycoris . . .

> Compare to a plain-vanilla, "recommended" install of Windows 2000
> with no extra applications, at 1.8 GB.

Of course Linux has a lot more flexibility on what can be installed.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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