Subj : KNOPPIX 3.9 last CD
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Jul 24 2005 10:25 pm

Hey CHARLES!

Jul 24 23:17 05, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 CA> That was easier to agree with prior to all the bloat. 

What bloat?  My initrd's are still under 8M.  The development partition - even 
with X libs ready, willling and able - is less then 300M and that includes C 
and C++ with extra math libs for all sorts of processing, even parallel.  I see 
no unneeded bloat.

 CA> Some of the 'idiotic' Windows software was created/marketed by
 CA> third party software companies. Microsoft was just their target
 CA> OS. 

They can keep it.  I have no problem with them.

 CA> My only two LINUX installs are mini-installs of Slackware and I
 CA> have no complaints about those. :-) 

Right.  I agree wholeheartedly with that.

 CA> I vaguely recall Pascal discussing ttylinux but very very
 CA> vaguely. I did take a look at ttylinux some time back and it
 CA> seemed to be more for developers than for users (general) such
 CA> as I might be. 

Somewhat.  Mostly he distributes source so you can build your own, along with 
his configs and build script(s) but his compile is there for download.  Add a 
kernel and voila!  Ready for booting and only requires 4M.  However I like 
building my own and add a few things that I use which is why my initrd's 
require 8M.  I still have some elbow room though.

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