Reducing Flatulence With Linux Distro.S

[aarn]

I was just wondering - why do the distro.s come with so much 'stuff'?

Brasero et al. - aren't we all using usb sticks now?

Pidgin/Thunderbird - isn't it easier just to have a hotmail/yahoo and a gmail for backup security?

For (those who thrive on) social interaction - does not skype do everything gwibber et al. promise?

I could post a list of what I have exterminated, but am reluctant to recommend, say,

installing Chrome then killing FFox. Might be some very important dependencies twisted...

Welcome any feedback on what else I can delete from my system. AA

[dave_boo]

I usually do a net install of openSuSE so I avoid most of what you are talking about. With modern package managers it is hard to delete something off if it is a dependency for something else. Basically just go ahead and start nuking what you don't need.

And I use k3b a lot (brasero for KDE) as it allows me to create iso of my dvds/blu-rays and then transcode them at my leisure without wearing out the optical drive. I know I could use the command line, but would I really want to type it in or run it from a script when I can just use the gui?

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speeling

[dharmabm]

this (and your other post about mint) are exactly the reason i moved to archlinux, i build the entire system from the ground up with only what i want installed. when i install something like ubuntu (which i still do occasionally) i always use ubuntu server edition, which gives me much more control (although it still pisses me off that when installing xorg it must include every chipset driver known to exist). 2 other distros that i have taken a liking to are crunchbang (debian-based) and archbang (arch-based) which are lightweight distros that install in minutes and are lightning-fast. both are rolling release also, so you never need a real 'upgrade', you just run regular updates and are always on the cutting edge, particularly with archbang. there was a time that i had 5 or 6 partitions on my notebook and was testing every distro that looked interesting, but i got bored with that and settled on arch a few years ago and never looked back. i still test on some distros that look interesting from time to time in virtual machines, i like to read distrowatch weekly to see what is going on in the linux world, but none of the top bloatware distros have any interest for me anymore.

[Korv]

I know Fedora has the option to manage what software you want during installation.

Debian I think too.

Not sure about Ubuntu though.

[JSixpack]

Just depends on the distro. They start w/ Arch (build it yourself) and go from there.

Many people do like to have a lot of apps installed by default, esp. newbies coming from Windows.

It's likely impossible to find a distro w/ exactly what you want pre-installed and that only. That said, there's a wealth of choice out there!

I've found the Synaptic package manager pretty good at uninstalling, updating, and installing.