YD 4.0

[Cian Duffy]

> I am sure Windows XP ships on 5 or 6 CD-ROMs, at least, and Mac OS X is
> on 4 or 5 (or one multi-gigabyte DVD-ROM).

Not so. One CD-700. Longhorn is 2 CD-700's or 1 DVD at the moment. 

OSX is on TWO DVD's, or at least the 10.3.5 discs I have are. Ones
much smaller than the others. And then theres the third disc for
Classic...

Linux and OSX are both just BIG. I've never been sure why. Windows
just uses compression to yesterday and back - the installed OS is
around 1.8GB.

In comparison BeOS uses around 600MB for the OS, the development tools
and a decent browser and office suite. An example of how to make a
good OS, make a terribly stupid decision (Hey! Lets do set top boxes)
and kill yourself. Something that happened to RISCOS, almost exactly
the same - except BeOS was for internet TV's and RISCOS for satellite
decoders.

Cian

We have come to expect a lot
> more from our operating systems than just a file manager and a few
> command-line formatting utilities. Many GNU/Linux distributions contain
> dozens of contributed (or commercial) programs -- browsers, games, music
> players, and so on -- that take up lots of room. And GNU/Linux has a
> reputation for choices, so multiple versions of each program might be
> made available. And when you throw in source code, things start to get
> really large!
> 
> > I've been trying to download the release from a
> > number of mirror sites to no avail. I ordered the
> > disk, though it has not yet arrived. Do I truly
> > need to download all 3.6GB to get an image of YD
> > up and running?
> 
> You can get a decent installation of Fedora RC2 in just the first two
> disks. The third CD-ROM contains "optional" items (like KDE, if I
> recall). If you are judicious in your choices of applications, you can
> get by installing from just the first two CD-ROMs (in Fedora for the PC,
> however, if you make a poor choice and select something from that third
> CD-ROM, there is no way to gracefully exit, and you must restart your
> installation :-( ).
> 
> If you are really pressed, you could possibly install YDL 4.0 without
> any of the GUI utilities. This would bring the size down to fewer than
> 1-GB. Also, the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux prides itself in making
> "best of" default choices of applications. There is a Ubuntu
> distribution for PowerPC that fits on a single CD. Several folks on this
> list have spoken well of Ubuntu (no flame wars, please!). Finally, there
> is a distro called "Damn Small Linux" that is exactly what its name
> suggests. The goal of that project is to have a full GUI version of
> Linux that fits on those little "business card" sized CDs (I do not know
> whether it is available for PowerPC, and I am *sure* it is not available
> for the G5).
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint
> 
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