Re: SEUL: Re: Minilinux (fwd)

[Kevin Forge <forgeltd@pop.netaddress.usa.net>]

David Cary wrote:
> 
> >From: William T Wilson <fluffy@benatar.dunadan.com>
> >cc: seul-project@seul.org
> ...
> >On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Star's End wrote:
> >
> >> Would such a stripped down version be suitable for our base system or
> >> would we be missing to many things. Generally What I consider the
> >> absolute minimum for a linux system is what is on my root partition and
> >> it as about 100 Megs.
> >
> >I don't recommend trimming the system down in this way.  Our goal is not
> >to make the smallest possible distribution, but to make the simplest
> >possible distribution.
> 
> Exactly. Sometimes *larger* is simpler/better.
> 
SEUL cannot be small.  A small tight system is for when you know exactly
what you want to do and are ready to trim it.  
i.e.  recently I started including Linux on new PCs at no charge to 
customers ... I simply ask them to test it for a while and call me to
delete it if it doesn't suit them.  I install ALL of RedHat 5.  Then I
Pile on Netscape 4,  Star Office, and KDE  ( These are mostly University
people and as such fit the none commercial Star Office license ).  
That's over 700 Megs of stuff plus 150 megs free in "/" "/usr" "/home"
for a total usage of ~1300 megs ( including swap )
I have yet to remove Linux from 1 such PC ... some of them are now 
using Linux for most operations in fact.

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