Size of dist was Re: official support for more scripting languages in gnome needed

["David T. Bath" <bathd valpro edipost auspost com au>]

On Tuesday 20 March 2001 10:08, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Finally, I just popped on over to warehouse.com.  It's kinda tough to get
> terribly worried about Linux or Windows installation size when you can buy
> a Seagate Barracuda 20GB Ultra ATA hard drive for $114.95...  That 700Mb
> you're worried about only takes up 3% of such a disk.

Great for us rich elite, but less useful for the poor who make the natural
"market" of Linux.

I wonder how the Brazilian Government is creating its KDE/Linux boxes
with only Flash and NO hard disk.
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