[email protected] wrote on 09/29/2009 03:49:44 PM: > No this is a standard installation of Windows XP with nothing extra > installed (and only the Windows folder). I just looked at an old > laptop I installed XP to use as 'n gateway, and that installation is > only 1Gig (Windows) and 100Mb (Program Files), nothing programs > related installed. My File Server is at: 1.7Gig (Windows), Program > files is 14Gig, quite a few things installed over time. On my > other File server I used N-Lite to strip a lot out of windows so > it's at: 850Mb (Windows) and 312Mb (Program Files), also have > installed a lot of program files, and the setup of the n-lite > windows is only 200Mb.
The point is that a Ubuntu install gives you *everything*: OS, browser, e-mail client, full Office suite, games, loads of utilities, etc. Windows doesn't. So, you're comparing apples to oranges. If you want a slimmed down install, you might want to look into something like CentOS (or Debian). What would be nice would be either a full-featured installer (so that you can pick and choose items), or an n-lite-like tool for Ubuntu. You may want to do some Googling for respinning or remastering Ubuntu. Or check out Fedora: it gives you easy, n-lite tools for remixing it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix Tim Massey > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] > ] On Behalf Of Ivan Vodopiviz > Sent: 29 September 2009 09:24 PM > To: ReactOS General List > Subject: Re: [ros-general] Keep it Clean > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wanted to upgrade my Windows installations to Ubuntu about a year ago, but > > after hearing it needs that amount of space (I thought it would beless than > > 1Gig), I decided to stick to my Windows XP installations that Install to > > about 1.7Gig. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Bernard > > Just out of curiosity: Does that XP size include a full installation > of OpenOffice? One of the few things I really don't like about Ubuntu > is the fact that they include the full blown OO.org suit by default. > Evolution is another beast that I usually remove 5 minutes after I > finished installing the OS since it sucks and takes quite some space. > > Cheers, > > -- > Iván Vodopiviz > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general _______________________________________________ Ros-general mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-general
