Subj : KNOPPIX 3.9 last CD
To   : TOM WALKER
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sun Jul 24 2005 05:08 am

TOM WALKER wrote in a message to JAY EMRIE:

JE>TA>I just downloaded the recent KNOPPIX version 3.9 iso
JE>TA>and burned to CD I haven't had a chance to try yet;

JE>TA>but this is probably going to be the last KNOPPIX
JE>TA>live cd. It is forecast that in August the version
JE>TA>will only fit on a DVD, as will all hereafter.

JE>Mushrooming just as Windows did. :-)

 TW>  NOT at all. The basic program will still be LINUX Lean and Mean.
 TW> BUT  they will be including a mind Boggiling selection of Public
 TW> Domain  programs to pick form and to satisfy almost any desire.
 TW> But as I stated in the other post a Live CD sized version with a
 TW> much smaller selection of additional programs will STILL be
 TW> avaiable. 

Just so.  In my original install of Slackware 4.0 I was able to install 
*everything* and still have some room left over on a 1G drive.  In later 
versions this was not the case,  but when I set up my firewall/router box I 
used an 80M drive,  took a small swap partition out of that space,  and of the 
60-some-odd-meg left I still had room left over,  which eventually got eaten by 
the log files almost totally just before that drive went west on me this past 
monday.  And that was Slackware 8.0...

I now have a new install that's slack 10.0,  and it's taking up somewhat more 
room,  but I need to go in there and clean things up a bit,  and lean it out a 
great deal.  I'm sure there's stuff in there as a part of the default install 
that I don't need. 

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