Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] gentoo size

[Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

yea.  i ran the stage 1 install from the minimal cd.  i haven't gotten
around to deleting my distfiles yet.

George Robb wrote:

>  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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