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Date:      Sun, 28 May 2006 01:27:18 +0100
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: min disk size for (useful) desktop
Message-ID:  <200605280127.21691.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <44785997.9020209@thechristies.net>
References:  <44785997.9020209@thechristies.net>

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On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:52, Pete C wrote:
> . . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent
> desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. .

Just in case you are not aware,   6-stable is development branch.

>
> . . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question
> really is is 20G enough ? ? ?

Probably, if you're not going to store a lot of  user files. One caveat: 
openoffice requires about 9GB of temporary filespace to build from source, 
and recent binary packages are often hard to find.




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