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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Date: 19 Aug 1993 21:59:10 +0200
Organization: TU Darmstadt, ITI
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mike@ichips (Mike Haertel) writes:
>Similarly, things like the full SLS release have really bloated out--I
>helped a friend install SLS last fall, and the full installation with
>X came in at around 40 Megs. Just recently tried again, and got
>upwards of 80 megs. Yeeow.
Well, a *BSD system with all the stuff you find in SLS would cost some more
disk space than 80 megs. Time for shared libraries, I guess. ;-)
Anyway, with SLS you don't have to install all and everything. It's split
into packages which are separately installable and deinstallable.
I hope FreeBSD 1.0 and/or NetBSD 0.9 have the concept of 'software packages'
and means to install and deinstall them, at least for 'third party' software
like X or TeX.
Hannes
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