alyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldimagemessage-square185linkfedilinkarrow-up1510arrow-down135file-text
arrow-up1475arrow-down1imageA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterlemmy.worldalyth@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前message-square185linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAnomalousBit@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down4·2 年前Debian Linux installation ISO is only 336 MB, FFS. And that’s a whole operating system with user land!
minus-squareKISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down5·2 年前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.
minus-squareAnomalousBit@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·2 年前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
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 年前me when i spread misinformation
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