30 May
2013
30 May
'13
3:24 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Cory Smelosky
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:38 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: [cctalk] Old UNIX Systems
On 30 May 2013, at 15:32, "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
Every distribution wants to cram in a ton of stuff that they think everyone wants, and it
ends up being HUGE (and frankly, likely confusing for the newbie). I remember product
installs where you could check/uncheck things to be installed as you wanted, but I guess
they figure those are too intimidating. :-p -- Ian
Yes, modern *desktop* Linux is pretty fat. It's mostly in the desktop GUI
stuff. "Server" Linux (i.e., no GUI desktop environment) is pretty lean.
True. Server stuff is fairly lean. The kernel is still getting pretty damn big,
though.