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>Both SuSE and Mandrake permit you to select individual packages, which can 
>be quite tedious.  Slack will probably give you the smallest footprint.   I 
>know you weren't asking about distros, but these are alternatives that 
>might fit your needs.

I've found another small-footprint option:  gentoo.  I've been toying with 
it for a week, trying it on various boxes, and I think it's probably the 
neatest distro I've come across- after years of being a slack man.

I've re-installed slack on this box- due to the weird partitioning scheme 
I've got on it from a once-upon-a-time dual-boot situation with windoze...  
like, hda1 isn't physically hda1, etc.  Done to trick windoze into thinking 
it had the first partition...  *sigh*  Gentoo kept choking on it.  So I'm 
cleaning up my /home partition, and then I'm going to kill all my partitions 
and start from scratch with Gentoo yet again.

I'm digressing, though.. :-)

Gentoo give you a small base system (and if you use a stage-3 compiled for 
your particular architecture, there's no reason to bootstrap the install at 
all!) to which you add your apps & their dependencies (!) one at a time if 
you want to.  There's definately no bloat there!  :-)



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