Linux or BSD on tiny HD?

Thu Feb 3 17:16:56 UTC 2005

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:09:47PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> Slackware.  Honestly, if you're starting out on Linux, then get a
> harddisk to do a full install.  You can trimming it down to 512MB, but
> how would you know which packages to include and exclude, if you never
> tried them?

You read the nice descriptions in aptitude or apt-cache show
packagename.  it is very simple.  A whole lot simpler to upgrade and
maintain too.

Lennart Sorensen
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