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Samual Acorn wrote:
>
> im not a big fan of 'media' players... xmms for music, 
> xine for movies... 

What's wrong with a single binary (mplayer) that does
music, movies and streaming media?   Isn't David's
mplayer smaller than your xmms/xine stuff?

> opera is adware/shareware... and it doesnt do CSS properly...

Opera is now free.  No ads.  I haven't noticed any
CSS problems with the latest version (which I have
running on BL2).

> i only install what i want from big distros 

I doubt it.  I reckon your big-distro installation is 
filled with stuff you don't use.

> my point was is that i can install -from cd- not over the web... 

So do I.  I have a Slackware 4.0 CDrom for BL3.  
And Slackware 7.1 and 8.1 CDroms for BL2.

> nor do i have to replace anything i just install it....
>
> its old (same install for 5 years now) so ive had to do
> a bit of updating.... usually compiling the apps myself....

What's the difference between "replacing" and "updating" ?

> > Busybox telnet is easily replaced.
> why replace when the real one can be installed in the first place.... 

Because the real one is much, much bigger.  If I used
"real" binaries in BasicLinux, it would need 10 floppies 
instead of 2.

> i have chopped up installs made out of redhat components... 

That's how BasicLinux started (except that I stripped down 
a Slackware installation).  I wanted to get Linux down to 
the minimal essentials (like booting a 3-file DOS: io.sys,
msdos.sys and command.com).

Cheers,
Steven

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