Okay, I actually have two questions.
My first question is Why doesn’t opensuse have xfce and lxde?
My second question is Why is opensuse so big(rhetorical), Why do you need to have so many files
ryuguns wrote:
> Okay, I actually have two questions.
> My first question is Why doesn’t opensuse have xfce and lxde?
openSUSE has both xfce and lxde…
but if you install from the KDE or Gnome CD you will have to use YaST
to later install those…or, you could use the DVD and choose from
gnome, kde, lxde, xfce and some others…
> My second question is Why is opensuse so big(rhetorical), Why do you
> need to have so many files
which files do you think are not needed? you can, during install,
select what to install, and what not…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
Why is opensuse so big (rhetorical), Why do you need to have so many files
openSUSE by itself is not “big”. Consider the Live-CD which offers quite a lot on very restricted CD space. When you do a minimal install it will be happy with less that 1GB of hard disk space used. The installation DVD is as big as there is space available on the DVD (around 4.7GB). openSUSE tries to make all often needed stuff available on the DVD. You can install a perfectly useable system without internet access.
Certainly some packages are rather big (OpenOffice, TeX, full KDE, kernel source to name a few) but that is not the fault of the distribution. The online repositories are big. That’s because you can’t put 6’000 elephants into a nutshell (there are about 6’000 packages in the oss repo). You do not have to install everything; they are here just in case you need them.