On 8/11/05, suse@karsites.net wrote:

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Murphy, James (Tech) wrote:

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To: opensuse@opensuse.org From: "Murphy, James (Tech)" Subject: [opensuse] What linux should be

Guys

I honestly think that opensuse should have a base system , ie KDE [ but lightened up] repositories built into YAST [ BUT NOT ENABLED]

I would like to see a bare-bones minimal SuSE Linux installation.

Something like the rescue system, with no X-Windows, and a decent editor such as mc. This would be an ideal base to build webservers, email servers etc on.

Keith Roberts

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Keith, We have the option in OpenSUSE already. When you have the option of what desktop you want select other and then the box next to it. You can have a minimum SUSE install and then add to it as you please. Andy

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andrew.wafaa@gmail.com 08/12/05 1:19 am >>> On 8/11/05, suse@karsites.net wrote:

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Murphy, James (Tech) wrote:

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To: opensuse@opensuse.org From: "Murphy, James (Tech)" Subject: [opensuse] What linux should be

Guys

I honestly think that opensuse should have a base system , ie KDE [ but lightened up] repositories built into YAST [ BUT NOT ENABLED]

I would like to see a bare- bones minimal SuSE Linux installation.

Something like the rescue system, with no X- Windows, and a decent editor such as mc. This would be an ideal base to build webservers, email servers etc on.

Keith Roberts

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Keith,

We have the option in OpenSUSE already. When you have the option of what desktop you want select other and then the box next to it. You can have a minimum SUSE install and then add to it as you please.

Andy

With SLES I managed to get an autoyast install cut down to around 140 packages (and I was not able to remove anything else no more ). Personally I think that should be minimum. In total around 400 Mbyte. The current minimum set is too large for environments that require a base system installed and that's it. I know of places that do (even large ones). But then autoyast is good for that :D and the minimum set during a standard install is probably good for many paanthers out there.