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My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 15, 2008 6:17 UTC (Tue) by motk (subscriber, #51120)
In reply to: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet) by JoeBuck
Parent article: My kid hates Linux (ZDNet)

Oh noes! Bloat! A hundred meg of my 500G drive, gone! 

SHAKE ANGRY FIST AT GOD, SCREAM NOOOOO

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Posted Apr 15, 2008 6:49 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

100 MB is a good estimate. openfire and VMware do not even have any rpm package requirements.
$ (rpm --qf="%{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" -qa "*32bit*"; rpm --qf="%{SIZE}\t%{NAME}@%{ARCH}\n" -qa | grep @i.86) | grep -Pv 'openfire|VMware' | perl -aF'\t' -lne 'END{print$x}$x+=$F[0]' 117166556