[Cialug] Not that big? (Was Command Line Linux)

chris chris at ia.gov
Tue May 12 14:23:10 CDT 2009


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David Champion wrote:
> Even if you do install the GUI, it's not that big. I installed Kubuntu 
> 9.04, it takes up a whole 3.5gb for everything, including KDE, Firefox, 
> Tbird, Quanta, the LAMP stack, and a few other goodies. You can change 
> it to CLI mode by changing the runlevel... or there's probably an Ubuntu 
> way to make that happen too.

Oh my.  Since when is 3.5gb "not that big"?   My Slackware base and OpenSuse base gui-less installs with Apache HTTPD
come in < 500MB will all kinds of extras.

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