Subj : KNOPPIX 3.9 last CD
To   : MAURICE KINAL
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 01:23 pm

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Hello Maurice - 

MK>>> libs for all sorts of processing, even parallel. I see no
MK>>> unneeded bloat. 

CA>> Yes, I know, I was referring to the commercial LINUX i.e.
CA>> Redhat et al. 

MK> Ah. You forgot SuSE. I am not sure which one out of the two
MK> is more bloated. Actually they are all getting to be too
MK> much but like you said in a previous post, there are some
MK> distributions where a minimal install is still doable. 

CA>> I've burned out my need to 'develop' anything anymore. I
CA>> just use what is available or not. 

MK> I can be that way and still not bloat the system. However I
MK> do like to tweak etc. so having a compiler handy never
MK> hurts my feelings any. I doubt I'd still be using computers
MK> if that wasn't true. I have yet to see an 'out-of-the-box'
MK> install I would use for any length of time. I'd get bored
MK> with it too fast. 

I agree that 'as installed' is never satisfactory for me
regardless of what computer or what OS I have ever used. I too
would become bored if I could not tweak the system enough to
accomodate my own preferences. 

Funny story - I was thinking about revisiting some of my old
code and maybe doing some optimizing just for nostalgia and
something to do. No rush since all the code works as it was
intended to. I suddenly realized that it's been so very long
since I did any coding that I never moved my C compiler to this
computer. We're talking a few years here and I never noticed
the compiler/assembler weren't on this machine. 

I had to laugh a bit at that one. I'm really losing my
motivation here as time goes by. 

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