Sick RedHat strategy or really 3 iso bloatware?

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

I feel your pain.  Just burned those three discs, only to get the boxed set 
the next morning (before any attempt to install). I know Mandrake's been 
2-3 least since the 8.x versions came out, and I think SuSE is even 
bigger.  Any other "major" RPM-based distributions, since Caldera is ruled out?

At 12:08 PM 5/10/02 -0700, Nate Cole wrote:
>All,
>
>I will be installing a new system here at work, and have had
>good success in the past with RedHat.  Plus, it is explicitly
>supported by most "major" vendors (ie Oracle).  Off I went to
>download RH 7.3.  Wow!  Now I need to get 3 isos totaling
>almost 1.7 gig!!  Even high speed will take a few hours.  Is
>this some way to force people to buy CDs or is RH now so
>bloated it requires a third iso?

Both?

>Can I do just as well building Slack and adding RPM?  Are there
>any other RPM based distros (_not_ Caldera) that are smaller
>and free to download?

I suppose RPM-for-Slackware must work, since it is a(n unsupported) part of 
the official distribution, but I bet trying to install critical pieces that 
way would be a mess.

>TIA,
>
>Nate


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