[Cialug] Not that big? (Was Command Line Linux)

[Stuart Thiessen]

Perhaps "not that big" is defined by what can fit on a USB stick? :)

On May 12, 2009, at 14:23 , chris wrote:

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> David Champion wrote:
>> Even if you do install the GUI, it's not that big. I installed  
>> Kubuntu
>> 9.04, it takes up a whole 3.5gb for everything, including KDE,  
>> Firefox,
>> Tbird, Quanta, the LAMP stack, and a few other goodies. You can  
>> change
>> it to CLI mode by changing the runlevel... or there's probably an  
>> Ubuntu
>> way to make that happen too.
>
> Oh my.  Since when is 3.5gb "not that big"?   My Slackware base and  
> OpenSuse base gui-less installs with Apache HTTPD
> come in < 500MB will all kinds of extras.
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