Re: [LUG] PC world AGAIN! - is this now going to be a good ol' distro punch up!!!

[kevin bailey <kev.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

well i'm getting in first!!!!  :o)

actually - i was going to write in anyway and say...

i just reinstalled debian due to a harddrive failure (IBM Deskstar - and 
one's failed at work too) and it was very interesting.

i installed nothing from the install disk except the basic system - no X 
servers - no compilers - no apps - nada - except the network card and 
configured it to use my proxy server.  i think the whole install was 
about 20/30MB

then switched the sources.list file to point at the woody distribution 
on the debian servers.  this is one version up from my the version on my 
CD and contains X version 4 and other goodies.

then selected masses of packages that i wanted on my system - came to 
about 200MB.

finally left it downloading for a day or so.

result - a completely up to date distro with all the DB's webservers, 
office apps that i need!!!

i know boxed apps come with manuals but i got the debian gnu/linux bible 
for 30 quid - and that had a CD of debian inside the back cover.

i think the point i'm making is this - in our networked world, why buy a 
distro of 6 CD's when that conains source code which might never be used 
and apps which are already out of date.  simply install the basics - and 
then download what ever software you want!!!

food for thought?

kev








Lee Quick wrote:
> > They may be free tools in the Redhat case but they have to
> > bundle it all up, and write a manual or two, and then they offer
> > you some free installation support....
> I agree but both Suse7.3 pro and Mandrake 8.1 powerpack are 60notes
> and RH7.2 pro retails at 120 ish there surely can't be that much difference
> between the three distro's can there?
>
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