[wellylug] Installfest flyers

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 23:08 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> > So I'm surprised at the recommended specs.  Do the newbie distros
> > provide any option to limit what gets installed?
> 
> 
> Yes they do. But you are still typically having a fair bit of bloat there...
> like Gnome or KDE centric, etc, and going through a list of of a 1000 or so
> packages to omit what someone thinks you need is a pain.
> 
> I prefer installindg a distro of the hardware vintage. No, you won't get a
> current setup, but the hardware won't support that anyway. Use a distro
> designed to work on that hardware as a full install. Prob better for the user
> as well.
> They can't have any false hopes from trying the latest & greatest either :-)


Then we better have some CD's with older versions lying around.

I have Mandrake 9.0. Shall I bring this, and install it for the
needy? ;-)


-- 
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>

www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com

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