[NTLUG:Discuss] Evil 2.96 continued...

[don]

off topic, yes, but what in the world do that cram on 7 CD's ????

Will Senn wrote:

>Steve Baker wrote:
>
>...and I *really* like that utterly
>everything is right there on that one DVD. (Or one of the seven
>CD's!)  And in this age of the sub-$100 40Gb disk and DVD drives
>appearing on most new PC's, there really isn't a reason not to
>just tell it to install *EVERYTHING*.
>
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>I had no idea that it was out on dvd... That is quite different.
>My main problem with Suse has been that I don't know exactly which
>packages I 'need'.  With Redhat/Caldera/Debian/Mandrake(less
>so)/Slackware, I can choose everything and wind up with about 1.5 gigs
>tops.  Suse has always required lots of discs to achieve a similar
>everything installed result - 7 cds now...  With the advent of a
>dvd based distribution, all that I would have to worry about is the
>7gigs of space on my HD, which really isn't that big of an issue
>anymore.  Finally, I guess it's not that bad.  Didn't mean to dis the
>distro man!
>
>Later,
>
>Will
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