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

[Tim Champion]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:34 PM, David Champion <dave at dchamp.net> wrote:

> I was thinking "not that big" by modern standards... what's the smallest
> HD you can buy these days, like 250gb?
>
> If you can't install Ubuntu server (I don't know, haven't tried it, but
> I suspect you can) with no GUI, you can always install Debian... or any
> one of the other distros.
>
> -dc
>
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> > Perhaps "not that big" is defined by what can fit on a USB stick? :)
> >
> > On May 12, 2009, at 14:23 , chris wrote:
> >
> >
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> >> David Champion wrote:
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> >>> 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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I'm not sure about the current version of Ubuntu, but I installed 8.04 LTS
server a while back, by taking the defaults at install time, it did not
install X-windows.  just had command prompt.  I guess its possible I
un-checked some stuff on the install wizard, but I usually just blindly
click "next" when I'm installing stuff, so I seriously doubt I did anything
that strayed from the default options.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com
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