[CentOS] Why CentOS 5.2 is so large?

Tue Jun 24 08:38:49 UTC 2008
Dirk Gfroerer <Dirk.Gfroerer at guh-software.de>

Michael Liang wrote:
> Hi, folks.
> 
> I have download the DVD image of CentOS 5.2. Comparing with the DVD
> image of Upstream OS Provider, I got a surprise:
> 
> The size of the DVD image of Upstream OS Provider is just 2.87
> GB(i386), but the size of the DVD image of CentOS 5.2(i386) is so
> large that is 3.74 GB!
as Tim already wrote, CentOS 5.2 is not released yet, so don't use it.

Also please note there are two DVDs on RHN:
the server version with 2,934 MB
and the client version with 3,682 MB

CentOS distributes only one DVD which contains everything bundled into
one DVD.

Kind Regards,
Dirk