[Wolves] Red Hat Enterprise Server

[sparkes]

Peter Oliver wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, sparkes wrote:
> 
>> Simon Burke wrote:
>>
>>> with a full install of around 6gb.
>>
>>
>> how big?
> 
> 
> They ship lots of stuff and suddenly that's a bad thing?  If you don't 
> want everything then don't install everything.
> 

The phrase 'full install' suggests a default full install as in the 
largest of the standard installation choices.  A default full install of 
6 gig is just silly.

You can't have every different MTA's installed and installing several 
different web servers isn't a sane choice for many people.  My current 
system takes up around 15gig but that's with lots of old logs, hundreds 
of different libs (including several versions of some devel versions) 
and a years worth of work and play development, and shedloads of media 
files including every lugradio (and more than one version of several), 
oh and not forgetting a couple of pretty big games (such as et).  If 
this was a Red Hat system it wouldn't fit on my 20 gig harddrive ;-)

Shipping with lots of choice and installing lots of crap are two very 
different things and full install suggests a bloated 'default' full 
install.

Having the option to install lots of different things is good but really 
installing them shouldn't happen on most systems.   There are still 
systems out there that perform a similar function to RHE and fit on a 
single cd!  The maximum one of those distros would (potentially) have 
about a gig or so for a maximum install.

Why is RHE so big?  You can't think 6 gig is a sensible footprint for 
any distro can you?

sparkes

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