mandrake 1st (c)lick

[Austin]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 10:48, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Debian (which has 8CDs) puts what most people se on the first cd, and
> then puts more and more obscure things on later CDs, so that most people
> only need the first or maybe second CD.  That is how a smart person
> would organize it.  No need to force people to download all the CDs
> because the installer is on CD1 and all the useful stuff you want is
> somewhere else.

That is also how Mandrake is set up.
They just don't consider bootsplash to be in the top 33% of important
packages.  Nor do I.
You'll notice that CD1 alone will give you a complete graphical unix
system... just no GNOME or KDE.

Austin
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                                 Austin Acton
        Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
               Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
        MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca


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