On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > Well, this is true, but of course Slackware makes doing the things he's > said a lot easier. A modern distribution like Red Hat 7.x is next to > impossible to install minimalistically on a machine with less than 1G of > hard disk space, many thanks to the bizarre dependencies of many of the > packages. It seems that they have an outstanding policy since Red Hat > 7.0 of making only binary packages that are fully Kerberos and > LDAP-enabled wherever applicable, which frustrates people making > low-footprint installs to no end. How many small offices actually have > a full Kerberos system deployed, or require an LDAP server I wonder, > that they decide they HAVE to build such support in all the time.
RedHat isn't the only other distribution is there? :) For a really minimal install, there are lots of other distributions that fit the bill. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila v "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." -Galadriel _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
