on Sat, Mar 30, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Davor Balder wrote: > > >G'day to all, > > > > > >I am planning to install Linux on my friends computer... I am thinking of > >Debian Potato just for start... I think he has 4 GB hard drive... His > >sister may be using Windoze, but he would like to start off with Linux. > >So, my question is, what can I fit onto 1 Gig. (I am running it all on > >comfy 20 Gig, but some people don't have such luxury...)... > > > >Which window manager should be deployed? :-) > > > >Have a great Easter break, > > > > > >Davor > > > If you leave it as one big / partition (plus swap partition), so that > you don't "waste" space by having too large of a partition "here" when > the space is needed "there", you can get a complete workstation setup > in 1 GB. You can't expect to do any big development (the kernel source > eats up a pretty good chunk of space, for example). You may need to be > a bit selective to keep space free; like, you might not want to > install both KDE and gnome. > > I prefer icewm because it's light, fast, and reasonably "intuitive" > for Windows users, but you shouldn't have any reason for space to be > the determining factor. Even if you want a full "environment" rather > than just a wm, like KDE, space probably won't be an issue.
Advantages of icewm noted. But you may want to be aware of current deb-devel discussion of upstream abandonment of this WM. More-or-less agreed on space. The things that swamp my /usr partition are tetex, Perl, and xemacs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Sick of mal-formed websites? Use a stylesheet to override poor design: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/userContent.css
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