TOM WALKER wrote in a message to JAY EMRIE:

JE>TA>I just downloaded the recent KNOPPIX version 3.9 iso
JE>TA>and burned to CD I haven't had a chance to try yet;

JE>TA>but this is probably going to be the last KNOPPIX
JE>TA>live cd. It is forecast that in August the version
JE>TA>will only fit on a DVD, as will all hereafter.

JE>Mushrooming just as Windows did. :-)

 TW>  NOT at all. The basic program will still be LINUX Lean and Mean.
 TW> BUT  they will be including a mind Boggiling selection of Public
 TW> Domain  programs to pick form and to satisfy almost any desire.
 TW> But as I stated in the other post a Live CD sized version with a
 TW> much smaller selection of additional programs will STILL be
 TW> avaiable. 

Just so.  In my original install of Slackware 4.0 I was able to install
*everything* and still have some room left over on a 1G drive.  In later
versions this was not the case,  but when I set up my firewall/router box I
used an 80M drive,  took a small swap partition out of that space,  and of
the 60-some-odd-meg left I still had room left over,  which eventually got
eaten by the log files almost totally just before that drive went west on
me this past monday.  And that was Slackware 8.0...

I now have a new install that's slack 10.0,  and it's taking up somewhat
more room,  but I need to go in there and clean things up a bit,  and lean
it out a great deal.  I'm sure there's stuff in there as a part of the
default install that I don't need. 

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