Sick RedHat strategy or really 3 iso bloatware?

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Nate Cole wrote:

>Is this some way to force people to buy CDs 
>
I think it might be an internationally-based (left-winged or 
right-winged, your choice) plot by the CD manufacturers to force people 
to buy CD's. <g>

Based upon my experience yesterday on my testbed 233 MMX with 128 MB 
RAM, RH 7.3 will need somewhere around 1.9 GB for a custom 
X/KDE+GNOME/emacs/development+kernel development installation. It took 
almost 70 minutes to write the files during the installation. Even a 
stock workstation installation was about 1.8 GB. Other users on the Red 
Hat forums report similar times and sizes.

This compares on the same system with 6.2, which was about 900 MB and 15 
minutes, and 7.2 which was about 1.4 GB and 25 minutes.

So the installation time makes a nice lunch break ...

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