[ros-general] Keep it Clean

[Timothy J Massey]

ros-general-bounces at reactos.org wrote on 09/29/2009 03:49:44 PM:

> No this is a standard installation of Windows XP with nothing extra 
> installed (and only the Windows folder). I just looked at an old
> laptop I installed XP to use as 'n gateway, and that installation is
> only 1Gig (Windows) and 100Mb (Program Files), nothing programs
> related installed.  My File Server is at: 1.7Gig (Windows), Program 
> files is 14Gig, quite a few things installed over time. On my
> other File server I used N-Lite to strip a lot out of windows so 
> it's at: 850Mb (Windows) and 312Mb (Program Files), also have
> installed a lot of program files, and the setup of the n-lite 
> windows is only 200Mb. 

The point is that a Ubuntu install gives you *everything*:  OS, browser, 
e-mail client, full Office suite, games, loads of utilities, etc.  Windows 
doesn't.  So, you're comparing apples to oranges.

If you want a slimmed down install, you might want to look into something 
like CentOS (or Debian).

What would be nice would be either a full-featured installer (so that you 
can pick and choose items), or an n-lite-like tool for Ubuntu.  You may 
want to do some Googling for respinning or remastering Ubuntu.

Or check out Fedora:  it gives you easy, n-lite tools for remixing it:  
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix

Tim Massey

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-general-bounces at reactos.org [
mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.org
> ] On Behalf Of Ivan Vodopiviz
> Sent: 29 September 2009 09:24 PM
> To: ReactOS General List
> Subject: Re: [ros-general] Keep it Clean
> 
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Bernard <bernarddt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Bernard <bernarddt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to upgrade my Windows installations to Ubuntu about a year 
ago, but
> > after hearing it needs that amount of space (I thought it would beless 
than
> > 1Gig), I decided to stick to my Windows XP installations that Install 
to
> > about 1.7Gig.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Bernard
> 
> Just out of curiosity: Does that XP size include a full installation
> of OpenOffice? One of the few things I really don't like about Ubuntu
> is the fact that they include the full blown OO.org suit by default.
> Evolution is another beast that I usually remove 5 minutes after I
> finished installing the OS since it sucks and takes quite some space.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Iván Vodopiviz
> 
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