Re: On the road to a minimalist Debian
On Sun 07 Jun 2020 at 13:30:20 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> CARPE LECTOR:
> I said "a minimalist Debian", NOT "the minimalist Debian" ;}
Got it. We are on the samelength.
> Circumstances have come together allowing me to do multiple installs.
> As I have restricted bandwidth and DVD set are available on flash devices, I
> recently purchased Debian 10.0 for AMD64.
You are still coming through loud and clear.
> I've done three installs today.
> For maximum consistency, all used only drivers for the particular machine
> and no "print server" {as I don't have any printers currently}.
> The results were:
> Pkg Count Disk space
> MATE with standard utilities 1116 3.73 GB
> CLI with standard utilities 136 1.01 GB
> CLI w/o standard utilities 37 .87 GB
Data are incontestible.
> [1] Pkg Count reported by installer
> [2] Disk space reported by Gparted Live
>
> As time is available I intend to do a few additional installs.
> One will of MATE with only dependencies, not recommended, packages
> installed.
Thank you for keeping us informed.
--
Brian.
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