[CLUE-Tech] Debian: gpm not installing by default

[David J Jackson]

Sean --
If you start following the mailing listing you notice that they "don't suffer
fools", or a least ones
that don't do their homework before posting. Another intersting is the transcript
of the flame war
between Theo and NetBSD list that gave bith to OpenBSD.
BYA  Theo got married a couple months ago, if that doesn't qualify a woman for
sainthood I don't know
what does.

Dave

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> On 04-20 14:04, David J Jackson wrote:
> > Zonker --
> > I just did a semi-standard/stable install, of Debian.
> > And I do seem to recall a problem with one versionof X and mice?
> > Debian reminds me the why Slack used to be a couple of years ago as far as
> > basic disk space use.
> > What whatever reason, it got a little "bloated" over the years, not as bad as
> > RedBloat :)
> > Of course if you want a really "Spartin" install give OpenBSD a fling !!! I
> > would agree that Susie
> > is the worst install, with all taht CD swapping.
>
> Yeah, you aren't kidding about the OpenBSD install. FreeBSD is pretty
> slim at install time, so I expected OpenBSD to be small, but wow. I started
> a net install from floppy for the OpenBSD install, and it was done before I
> could even think about running off and doing something else. On a similar
> machine (Pentium I, 100Mhz), Redhat 7.2 took 20+ minutes (and a CD swap, no
> less) to install, and that was AFTER I manually deselected lots of frivolous
> things.  For some reason, Redhat wants to install things like lame and
> vorbis and other sound and/or GUI stuff for a *server* install, IIRC.
> Ridiculous. If I wanted that sort of functionality (sound, GUI, etc) on a
> server, why not pick W2K? Well, not taking into account all the rebooting
> and the M$ tax that W2K would require?
>
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