What distro to use for Desktop use? No serving..desktop use.
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I was actually a bit hesitant to use it despite my woes with RedHat . . but then I read about the minimal installs.
A minimal install with X support is around 70-80 megs if I recall right. Bare minimal is I think 65MB.
Basically, if you unselect ALL groups of packages, it'll ask you what kind of minimal install you want, with/without X, etc. Other stuff you have to use RPM to put in manually.
Mind you, I haven't actually messed around with the minimal install too much. But I thought you might find it interesting.
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