On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Sean Collins <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd like to point out ubuntu is huge. you've got some room to move. Typical
windows 7 install is like 10gb's. haiku tops out around 600 or so for a base
install.
Please note that Ubuntu fits on a CD, doesn't come with dev tools, and
doesn't include both gcc2 and gcc4 compiled versions of all the
libraries.
even 10+ year old pc's will have no problem sparing 2-4gb of storage.
Interesting - when I install Haiku, I usually give it between 4-8gb of
storage for the /boot partition ... which I might add, impresses
people quite a bit.
again I wasn't suggesting a "mandate" just a fat/thin down loadable media
format. Nobody likes chasing libs, its aggravating.
Having a "fat" and "thin" version of haiku represents two separate
'standard' distributions of it. I'm not sure how you could have
suggested these were not separate distributions.
As for "chasing down libs" - that's *precisely* what a package
management solution is for... and something Haiku will desperately
need before Beta/R1 at this point. I might add that this is the nature
of "porting apps" - it's not really what Haiku was designed to be like
- so by including all the libs needed to port apps up front, we're
just encouraging bad behavior, dependency-hell, and non-native
software.
Last I heard, that wasn't exactly what the Haiku project aimed to become.
- Urias
