Windows has always installed in under a gig, 256mb for 98se with a gui web browser, tcp/ip, and dialup-networking.
You will be hard pressed to get a suitable equivalent out of linux for the space. I saw a distro once that fit itself into 650MB and onto a cd.
I know about floppy-based distributions and such that work for text-only and firewalls, but when you start looking at things like X Windows and web browsers and the like, your hardware requirements go way beyond the 75Mhz Pentium.
The whole concept of bloated windows is laughable when compared to most distributions of linux.
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Windows has always installed in under a gig, 256mb for 98se with a gui web browser, tcp/ip, and dialup-networking.
You will be hard pressed to get a suitable equivalent out of linux for the space. I saw a distro once that fit itself into 650MB and onto a cd.
I know about floppy-based distributions and such that work for text-only and firewalls, but when you start looking at things like X Windows and web browsers and the like, your hardware requirements go way beyond the 75Mhz Pentium.
The whole concept of bloated windows is laughable when compared to most distributions of linux.