@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 4 months agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1509arrow-down135file-text
arrow-up1474arrow-down1imageA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.world@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected]English • 4 months agomessage-square187fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@AnomalousBitlinkEnglish21•4 months agoDebian Linux installation ISO is only 336 MB, FFS. And that’s a whole operating system with user land!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•4 months agoNo, that’s a tarball of a kernel, basic command line tools, apt and a network stack that lets you download most of the operating system.
minus-square@AnomalousBitlinkEnglish17•4 months agoUm, no? The 336 megabyte usb installation media contains everything you need to install base Debian. Most people will want a desktop environment and other packages, they can connect to the network to download those additional packages. Even the how-to says the network is optional. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s04.en.html#idm368
Debian Linux installation ISO is only 336 MB, FFS. And that’s a whole operating system with user land!
No, that’s a tarball of a kernel, basic command line tools, apt and a network stack that lets you download most of the operating system.
Um, no? The 336 megabyte usb installation media contains everything you need to install base Debian. Most people will want a desktop environment and other packages, they can connect to the network to download those additional packages.
Even the how-to says the network is optional.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s04.en.html#idm368
me when i spread misinformation