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Ever wondered about the minimal OS X 10.6 Install Size? Here is a list of the disk space the individual components need, taken from the Install Menu of an OS X Retail DVD:

Essential System Software
8.12 GB

Printer Support
2.93 GB

Additional Fonts
144 MB

Language Translations
1.21 GB

X11
159.4 MB

Rosetta
3.5 MB

QuickTime 7
32.8 MB

So the bare minimum is 8.12 GB but even ...

If you install a desktop Linux for friends or relatives that are not that much into Linux in my opinion Ubuntu is clearly the best choice.

So I ended up installing the new 10.04 LTS release on five machines. To go through the common tasks after the installation a bit faster next time I wrote ...