[Rule-list] Distributing the distro

Marco Fioretti m.fioretti at inwind.it
Sun Feb 17 22:58:31 EET 2002


On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 09:07:07 at 09:07:07AM +0000, ichi at ihug.co.nz wrote:

> Small footprint?  So far, it appears you guys are talking about 
> 200-300mb.  That may seem small to people with 10gig harddrives, 
> but it's way too big for my 486-33 with 170mb HD.  I reckon you 
> should be aiming for a base installation of no bigger than 80mb 
> (including X, wm and graphical browser).
> 

Ouch! 80 MB is hard...
You are definitely right, and nothing would make us happier than
making it: we'll try, but I'm not sure if it is possible from Red Hat.
We'll see.

A curiosity: are you thinking to a use only as internet kiosk, or as
basic desktop (i.e. all that + email + text processing + PostScript
print services....)?

	Marco Fioretti
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