on 8/8/01 3:16 PM, Chris Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> and who uses aurora?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terrible Tom
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] [Holy Minimal Install] Why "Linux sucks"...
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> on 8/8/01 2:17 PM, Pixel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> [...]
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>>> Neither of these options require rcoket science to implement, yeat,
>>> steadfastedly, Mandrake refuses to add these simple options.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>
>> simple: too dangerous. eg, try installing redhat on 300MB, it's hard!
>>
>> - minimum install => people don't have many stuff installed and can't make
>> their system working
>> - maximum install => more install pbs, less tested, conflicts, weird slow
>> services... Even more true with Contribs being available at install!
>
> Agreed, i tried doing a minimal install of another distro on my mac this
> morning, eeek!
>
>
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>>> (While at the same time weighting down the installations with cutting
> edge,
>>> but largely unnecessary apps, and leaving out relatively useful and
>>> established files (like the rather obscure 'traceroute').
>>
>> i've never used traceroute so i don't care much ;pp
>>
>> anyway, at the moment, it's in 'Utilities', like lsof, tcpdump...
>> it could be moved to the default install.
>> (though i won't move lsof unless its doc is lowered to a reasonable size)
>>
>
> i still think it's funny that gimp gets installed but not traceroute, but
> thats another story ( nothing against gimp either, just that I doubt many
> people use it much )
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the same people who top post :)
aurora could have been cool, too bad it died though.
I hate posting to the list, mostly cause i'm no developer, barely able to
code, and only half decent at scripting.
But since I use 3 pcs here for mandrake and cooker, I sometimes get the
gonads to post my opinions on somethings
