Hi,

I'm accustomed to NetBSD. It comes as a complete system. Any new application I can download or compile on my own. Full system is 208 MB in size on CD. I want to press the point "full system" with compilers, etc. The rest is network installed. I'll come back to this later.

Let's say also I'm sort of a freshmen to SL/RHEL.

I got 6 SL CDs and two of six passed install check. The same process for downloading and burning for all 6. Small probability but it happened. My bad luck. Tough.

I checked LiveCD. As my rig sports Celeron 400 and 320 MB DRAM I had to get rid of GNOME. I run yumex for the purpose. Done. But yumex has apparent flaw. It is terribly slow. It seems it refreshes and sorts repo list only (it does it so brazenly slow). So looking for, ticking off and removing further packages was depressing.

The second snag I want to share with you pertains to number of repos. Which one is good for SL? I found Fedora 6 Extra for dillo web browser. Then running all the repos attached to yumex made me got stucked with unresolved dependencies. When will this mish-mash with "multirepo syndrome" be resolved to SL advantage?

Third problem I want to raise is lack of SL system without most services switched off apart from essential. Or where on SL WWW one can find description what to do to have pure system running. What I'd like to say with those words is that running SL takes nearly 300 MB. When I removed GNOME I ended up with IceWM and 2xx MB taken for "system stuffs" which I think were decidedly needless on my machine. Is the SElinux services which bloated the SL system? Or what?

I reinstalled NetBSD (I use one HDD so shuffling systems I must have them erased and reinstalled) with IceWM and "top" showed me < 50 MB memory reserved for essential processes and some MBs for other things.

Saying simply I'd like to have SL LiveCD in more flavors. 200 MB LiveCD Network Download (SL LND), and 700 MB LiveCD = SL LND plus applications (whatever you like).

What do you think?

Have a nice day to all.

Regards,
Przemysław Pawełczyk

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