Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] gentoo size

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Gentoo from a stage one install can be as small as you want it (take a 
look at the Gentoo on a stick project 128MB flash drives)...  Check your 
use flags and get rid of the "not needed stuff" and think about a 
different window manager...  e.g. xfce it is fast small and reliable and 
doesn't have the bloat that KDE or dare I say it Gnome has...

George


Shawn Parker wrote:

> does gentoo normally consume 3 gig of a drive?  granted, i do have kde 
> installed.  but, 3 gig?
>
> i'm used to archlinux.  without a desktop, my server is at 537 mb.  
> and, that is everything.  postfix, imap/pop, apache, mysql, squid, 
> etc.  that is actually kind of large for an archlinux box.
>
> i want some of my drive space back.  :)
>
> one of the reasons i stopped using redhat was due to the size of the 
> installs.  archlinux and gentoo are attractive to me because i can a) 
> custom build the system, and b) (i thought) they both looked tiny.  
> gentoo on my laptop is huge.
>
> :)
>
>

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