[GLLUG] New to FreeBSD

Richard Houser rick at divinesymphony.net
Sun Dec 18 00:14:41 EST 2011


15GB does seem excessive for a binary distribution.  I've got 6.6GB
used on Linux (with KDE4), and that's including a large number of
devel packages and more than a few in two difference architectures.
That's not counting /home, though.

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you saying 15GB isn't enough for FreeBSD, Ben, or that it's not too
> much?  I've got it on my laptop in an 11.5GB partition, and I have plenty of
> room, even after updating almost all my software with ports. Of course, I
> didn't install KDE, as you did.  Did you install Gnome, too?
>
>
>                               Chick
>
>
> On 12/17/2011 10:46 PM, Ben Chavez wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for all the suggestions. I now have better performance however
>> I can tell now 15 GB is no much to run a OS like FreeBSD.
>> Happy holidays.
>
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