On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Jim Diamond wrote:
I have a mostly-full TL 2013 installation on my computer which is 3.2G. That includes only a small amount of the non-English stuff and about 370MB of backups (from TL updates).
So, yeah, 1.3 GB is fairly minimal.
Jim, If there's a way to remove the non-English stuff before building I'll do that; I don't need or use any other language.
?! You could do an on-line install of the whole thing in that time (with a fast network connection).
Well, it's a DASL connection that gives me ~340K/sec download; I'm too far toward the end of the wire to get higher speeds.
It's nice to run TeX on a fast machine, but TeX hasn't suffered (much, long story) from the bloatware syndrome, and people happily used it on computers that would be ludicrously slow compared to the slowest "PC" computers available today.
This machine is plenty fast for an application that waits for my keystrokes, even when I'm dumping thoughts on the system at 65 wpm. Since I spend most of my time writing, and the only external-facing service running on it is smtp (postfix), there's no need for a 64-bit installation of anything on this host. My laptop does have the x86_64 versions of Slackware so I do heavy computations (R, GRASS) analyses on that host. Rich _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
