> > That's a joke, right? /usr on my Debian box is taking up 2.5 GB, and I have > > about 1400 packages installed. There are over 13100 available packages. > > uh, no. It all depends on what distro and how much crap you want > installed. I know slackware 9.0 said if you installed everything it was > close to 2GB. RH generally requires more disk space if you do a full > install because there are more packages in RH then Slack. Debian seems My 2 year old heavily laden RedHat 9 system used for software development (lots of source code about) GNOME 2.2 and craploads of custom packages barely breaks 2gb depending on what I'm trying to compile. ;P Although its a pretty stripped down gnome/redhat. Nautilus? Don't need it! GUI admin tools? Gone! Hacking /etc/sysconfig/ yourself ain't that hard... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030910/8f8468d5/attachment.pgp