Re: Damm Small Linux

From: Chaos Master (renan.birckDEADTOTHESPAMMER_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/28/04

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    classd101 lies inside himself for hours:

    > I'm suffering from the bloated OS syndrom at this very moment. My hard
    > drive (Fujitsu) was a lemon thanks to a faulty batch of Cirrus Logic
    > ICs, and it went the other day. So I installed XP on my old 6GB back
    > up drive. XP alone takes up half of it!! If I recall correctly, win9X
    > would take up ~260MB, and could be stripped to 180MB. I could run it
    > dual boot with Linux on the same drive and have all my programs
    > installed. I can't believe that now. So what does one replace a dead
    > 40GB drive with? A 160GB drive, of course.

    I think that you can use 'XPLite' to remove XP stuff.

    Also remove dead things, like Windows Messenger. (MS attempt at forcing
    MSN into everybody).

    I have Win 98 SE installed in 200MB. My total disk usage by software is
    ~500MB.

    > So what came first? Was it the faster/higher capacity hardware or the
    > bloated software?

    The faster hardware moved manufacturers into making more bloated
    software. 

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