[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[James Sumners]

A base install of Debian, which provides access to MANY more packages,
is less than a gig. Why would RHEL be any different?

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the distro maintainers tried to include every useful tool (and I don't mean to say it's not useful...indeed it most certainly is) that comes along in their distros or even to maintain it in software repos, base installations would be 10G.  Were that to happen, I'd go back to FreeBSD and start cobbling my own distros up from the base ~300M install.



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