[Cumbria] Red Hat shoots itself in foot?

[Schwuk]

Paul Broomfield wrote:
> What I want to know is why oh why is Redhat and others focusing on the
> Desktop side of things? I would pay for a version of Linux that had
> automatic patches and nothing what so ever to do with X. I can dream. 

Desktop linux is the holy grail at the moment, but until a distro goes 
the way of Apple and decides what to include and exclude, rather than 
trying to cater for everyone/thing it's going to remain a long way 
off... Why do we need five different window managers, three different 
desktop environments, five browsers, three word processors etc... ?

One of the things really annoying me with Linux at the moment is bloat - 
that's why I'm drawn to distros like Gentoo (save your breath Chris...). 
I installed RedHat 8.0 on my gateway box, and even though I de-selected 
_everything_ it still weighed in at ~500Mb. I'm sure I've had OpenBSD 
running Apache, Samba and Jabber in < 200Mb...
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Schwuk