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Posted May 25, 2012 6:39 UTC (Fri) by djc (subscriber, #56880)
In reply to: Moving on by jengelh
Parent article: Moving on

Yeah, this is one of the reasons I use Gentoo (although I don't use it for desktops, where compilation time might be a bigger issue). A Gentoo ISO is 154MB... but doesn't include any GUI, of course.

Still, there's a lot to be said for the granularity with which Gentoo lets you install packages and their features.


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Posted May 30, 2012 12:08 UTC (Wed) by ssam (subscriber, #46587) [Link]

but a gentoo install takes up quite a bit of space, seen as you need to have a compiler and all the dev libraries. And portage takes up a fair about of space.

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Posted Jun 3, 2012 6:37 UTC (Sun) by philomath (guest, #84172) [Link]

enter Arch Linux.

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