Re: FC5 - Fedora in General

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<e83sob$dgb$1$830fa17d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Trog Woolley wrote:

I agree with the original poster, although as others have said, you can
install as little as you want. The beauty of Linux is that we have free
will and determinism; we are in control. However, the bloat factor does
worry me. When I started with Linux, RH5 was 1 CD (from memory)

Depends where you got it - the official boxed set from Red Hat had 3 CDs,
one binaries, one source, and one with "extras". But then Red Hat 2.1
also came on three CDs. If you want the slim stuff, you have to go much
further back - like Soft Landing Systems version 1.03 which fit on 30 5.25
inch floppies back in 1993.

Or, you could get Toms Root-N-Boot from sunsite

1728550 May 4 2002 tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img.bz2
2242580 May 4 2002 tomsrtbt-2.0.103.dos.zip
1119 May 4 2002 tomsrtbt-2.0.103.lsm
1829836 May 4 2002 tomsrtbt-2.0.103.tar.gz

which resulted in one severely overstuffed 3.5 inch floppy.

and the great Seawolf (7.1) was 2 CDs. I still run Seawolf on a couple of
machines and in some aspects I think it had the edge over Heidelberg or
Bordeaux.

The oldest thing accessible over the network that we have is a few 7.3
systems (7.3 still has marginal support from download.fedoralegacy.org),
but I also know of two boxes running Picasso (3.0.3 with the original 1.2.13
kernel and libc5).

The big problem with "popular" distributions is that the users are addicted
to windoze, and want the same kind of crap. This results in severely bloated
desktops like KDE or Gnome. By comparison, I ran SunOS 4.1.3 with the CDE
environment out of a single 105 Meg hard drive. Price of progress I guess.

Old guy
.

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