Sick RedHat strategy or really 3 iso bloatware?

[Net Llama!]

I've been manually updating 1 of my boxes to RH-7.3 this week 
(essentially, i downloaded all the SRPMs for 7.3, and rebuilt them, then 
installed the ones i wanted/needed).

RH-7.3 is not significantly different than 7.2.  THere are some package 
upgrades, and it does have KDE3 (if you care about that).

Keep in mind, that with the growth of the opensource world, there are 
alot more popular & useful packages out there.  Thus, distros are 
growing in size to provide the stuff that people need, use or want.  I 
dont' see it as a bad thing at all.  Quite the contrary, its a great 
thing that Linux offers such a wide assortment of software.

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?
> 
> 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?

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