Re: why so big...

From: Christian (charetc_at_NOSPAMnbnet.nb.ca)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 20:15:23 GMT

> Unlike the Windows world, you get plenty of additional software
> applications already included;
>
> Multiple email clients, Multiple word/office applications, Multiple Web
> Browsers, CD/DVD Burning software(with multiple front ends), Build in
> firewall and anti-virus protection, Multiple Desktop Mangers(not just a
> different look of the same one), SQL server/database, email/ftp/Web
> Servers and lots more......See the total package list here;
>
> http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/packages.html
>
> Compared to the Windows world equivalents (roughly); Windows 2000 Server,
> Office 2002, Roxio's CD/DVD Creator 6, IIS Server, Microsoft's SQL-2000
> server, Microsoft's Visual C++ and McAfee's Internet Security Suite. Try
> installing the just them and see how much room is taken up on the hard
> drive.

Yes i know all of this but on a mandarke system I can select these and get a
install of about 600MB, if i try to do the same on RedHat I get to some
thing of about 950MB (RH get into dependency hell and adds a tone of other
app)

locales-en
msec
vim-enhanced
XFree86
mandrake_desk
urw-fonts
eject
gnupg
hotplug
wget
urpmi
XFree86-75dpi-fonts
mdkkdm
kdebase
procmail
gcc
indexhtml
kdenetwork
man
openssh-clients
rxvt
XFree86-server
gcc-c++
menudrake
mkisofs
userdrake
libpng3-devel
at
aumix
cdrecord
coreutils-doc
devfsd
dhcp-client
drakconf
gurpmi
harddrake
hdparm
info
kde-i18n-en_GB
ldetect
numlock
rpmdrake
samba-client
strace
sudo
tmdns
tmpwatch
zcip
samba-server
kdeutils
bison
flex
fonts-ttf-decoratives
fonts-ttf-west_european
gftp
gtk-engines
kdeadmin
man-pages 

-- 
Christian

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