Yep, This is true, If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 GB. That is what surprises me. On Wednesday 03 February 2016 08:52 AM, Peter wrote:> On 03/02/16 16:15, Ramaseshan S wrote: >> While the minimal version is just 700M, what makes the minimal along with a >> GUI about 4.3 GB. > All the extra packages, libs, etc that are needed to support the GUI, > plus the extra apps that are available to run in the GUI (such as > LibreOffice, FireFox, etc). > >> Isint it too huge for an OS ? > ummmm, no? > > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Cheers -- S.Ramaseshan Engineer Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd email : ramaseshan at fractalio.com Web : www.fractalio.com
redhat (centos) ships lot's of stuff. you don't really need to install *everything* unless you have very specific needs.. 2016-02-03 8:15 GMT+02:00 Ramaseshan <ramaseshan at fractalio.com>:> Yep, This is true, > If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all > these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 > GB. > That is what surprises me. > > > On Wednesday 03 February 2016 08:52 AM, Peter wrote: > > On 03/02/16 16:15, Ramaseshan S wrote: > >> While the minimal version is just 700M, what makes the minimal along > with a > >> GUI about 4.3 GB. > > All the extra packages, libs, etc that are needed to support the GUI, > > plus the extra apps that are available to run in the GUI (such as > > LibreOffice, FireFox, etc). > > > >> Isint it too huge for an OS ? > > ummmm, no? > > > > > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > Cheers > -- > S.Ramaseshan > Engineer > Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd > email : ramaseshan at fractalio.com > Web : www.fractalio.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On 2/2/2016 10:29 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:> redhat (centos) ships lot's of stuff. you don't really need to install > *everything* unless you have very specific needs..I pretty much always install the 'minimal' ISO then install the specific packages I need with yum. lots of reasons, not the least, yum updates run faster when it doesn't have to apply updates to 1000s of packages you're never using. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 03/02/16 19:15, Ramaseshan wrote:> Yep, This is true, > If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all > these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 GB. > That is what surprises me.You're comparing apples to oranges. The Fedora images are live DVD, please note that CentOS also offers live DVD images which are 1.2 and 1.7G for GNOME and KDE respectively (for CentOS 7). The installation DVD not only contains *both* GNOME and KDE (each live DVD image only contains one of these), but also other programs that are not on the live DVD. Peter
Sorry, I understand the size of the ISO. I overlooked the installation options. Now its all clear. On Wednesday 03 February 2016 04:02 PM, Peter wrote:> On 03/02/16 19:15, Ramaseshan wrote: >> Yep, This is true, >> If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all >> these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 GB. >> That is what surprises me. > You're comparing apples to oranges. The Fedora images are live DVD, > please note that CentOS also offers live DVD images which are 1.2 and > 1.7G for GNOME and KDE respectively (for CentOS 7). The installation > DVD not only contains *both* GNOME and KDE (each live DVD image only > contains one of these), but also other programs that are not on the live > DVD. > > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Cheers -- S.Ramaseshan Engineer Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd email : ramaseshan at fractalio.com Web : www.fractalio.com
The whole confusion was, instead of downloading the Live DVD install, I downloaded the DVD version, and made the default installation option (overlooking it) and it gave me only a minimal install by default. So it was nothing but a silly mistake, I am sorry about it. Didnt quite realize it. On Wednesday 03 February 2016 04:02 PM, Peter wrote:> On 03/02/16 19:15, Ramaseshan wrote: >> Yep, This is true, >> If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all >> these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 GB. >> That is what surprises me. > You're comparing apples to oranges. The Fedora images are live DVD, > please note that CentOS also offers live DVD images which are 1.2 and > 1.7G for GNOME and KDE respectively (for CentOS 7). The installation > DVD not only contains *both* GNOME and KDE (each live DVD image only > contains one of these), but also other programs that are not on the live > DVD. > > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- Cheers -- S.Ramaseshan Engineer Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd email : ramaseshan at fractalio.com Web : www.fractalio.com