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why does debain linux have soo many download install cd iso. seven i think

AFAIK, it's rather 13 than only 7 CDs.

I think the reasons are:

- Debian is favoured by SW developers. There's a nice toolset to make packages. Many times I've seen that developers offer a Debian package in addition to the source tarball.

- Debian wants to be a big collection, enabling the user to choose what he wants. You'll find a lots of alternative packages for the same purpose, e.g. lots of email servers, lots of editors a.s.o. Other distros make the decision for the user what he should install or at least they restrict the possible choice to only few options.

Regards
Thomas

you can smaller debian packages and get whatever you want via apt-get.

well you really don`t need the hole cd pack, the reason why there are so many cds is very simple, debian is one of the most creative distros. So my opinion is that you should download http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1 ... etinst.iso internet install version it`s only 180MB and you can be sure that you keep out installing something that you don`t need