You know, I keep prodding my OS vendors (commercial Unices, mostly) to make smaller installs. But everyone keeps making it bigger and bigger.

For example, I just got through installing a Solaris 8 machine, and it provides a number of different install options, much like the Full, Standard, and Custom type install options provided by many Windows installers. Anyway, I installed the ``Core OS'' cluster, which is the most minimal of 5 possible options. Once it was done, I logged in and removed about half of the packages it installed.