----- Thomas Vecchione <seablaede@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> I dont know enough about kernel development or the hundreds of other
> topics that it can cover to give a pro/con version of doing the audio
>
> flavor vs standard flavor myself, maybe others can do it. But I do
> know
> that while it is possible to create one distro that does it all, you
> tend to end up with huge amounts of bloat doing this, and it causes
> more
> problems than it solves IMO rather than keeping small concentrated
> flavors for what are essentially niche markets that fit that niche
> VERY
> well.
This is misinformation. A distribution with a large selection of packages does not equal bloated. The way the user configures said distribution can make /that specific system/ bloated but this is not the same as the base system being bloated. A base Debian stable installation with audio support and a graphical interface is under 400 megs. Don't install X and you're down to 140 megs. Make a custom kernel and remove modules not on your hardware and things get even smaller.
-lee
Received on Sat Mar 18 00:15:18 2006
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