min disk size for (useful) desktop

[Micah]

Pete C wrote:
> . . . looking for advice/guidelines for a minimum disk size for a decent 
> desktop install of 6-stable with gnome, openoffice, firefox, gimp etc. . 
> . .
> 
> . . . I have both a 20G and a 250G on hand, so I guess the question 
> really is is 20G enough ? ? ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Pete C
> 
> I love my country, but fear my government.

On my desktop system I'm using ~18G of a 30G slice for the system, home, 
swap, ports+distfile, digital photo album, etc. I'm running KDE, 
openoffice, firefox, gimp, java, and who knows what else (there are 436 
packages currently installed).

HTH,
Micah