/dev/rob0 wrote:

> Ethnic diversity doesn't bother me, even if I'm the one providing it.
> Heat sounds good. Humidity, I can tolerate. On my way, see you soon.

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. Just to give you an
insight: Panama is a country whose population is a variety of races.
Everybody here is probably a descendant from: chinese, european, arab,
european-jewish, catholic, african, american, south asian, some alien
from outta space, and the autoctonous native population. My dad was from
here and my mother was an American missionary, that's why i speak
american English. So, rest asured nobody will notice you.

> I haven't measured recently; I think 9.1 might be a bit more, bit still
> well under 5GB. When I have room, I do a full install and then go into
> pkgtool to remove things not needed.

Maybe it's a matter of taste and experience, you install so many times,
you become an expert. I've installed Debian so many times, outta
mistakes i've made, that now i can do it in my sleep. I do a minimal
install and just add what i want, and end up with a fast, lean, and mean
machine, always saving space and using lightweight programs, to enhance
the performance of this jalopy i use.

Last night i read 'till late, i know i don't want emacs, vim, games,
nor KDE for sure. I want Gnome not so much to use, but to able to use
the GTK apps that i prefer. I think XFCE4 will do fine, zank ju bery
mush!

I've entered in serious negotiations with this chinese fellow, and we
are going back and forth, over the purchase of an "almost new" 40 gig
ide hdd. Maybe i'll have a "new" hdd for this weekend. But this guy is a
"slim customer", someone to watch out for.

> No, sorry, there is no menu for the packages in extra. You go in and
> manually installpkg those, usually after setup is complete and you have
> booted the newly-installed system.

So, 'installpkg foo' will untar and install. i was having visions of
'tar -xyzñ foo', ./configure or whatever, uffda! this is gonna be long
and ugly.

later,
mario