[plug] P75 & Linux

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:05, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> It has to be said, there is little difference between doing this with
>> debian and doing this with Redhat....
>> If you do a minimal install on either distro
>> and then add only the packages you need, RedHat would not take any more
>> space than Debian.

> I don't agree - not unless its changed between RH7.0 and RH7.3. I found
> debian to have much more "fine-grained" package selection and fewer
> dependencies defined ("suggests" and even "reccomends" can be left out
> with debian - not with RH where its either a dep or not). I was able to
> get a usable debian system in 300MB where RH had taken up over 550MB for
> the same functionality, and I was pretty new to debian.

> On the other hand perhaps I just missed something about RH.

Conditional on how much functionality you wanted, it looks to me like you're 
100% correct.

Cheers; Leon