>>8
Lies.
My desktop Gentoo box install takes up only 4.3GB. And that's with a huge amount of shit installed. Notably: the full GNOME and KDE meta packages (meaning they include all the packaged apps, like media players, editors, browsers, games, etc), XFCE4, Fluxbox, FVWM-Crystal, XGL/Compiz/CGWD, Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Firefox, Opera, amaroK, K3b, Cedega, Wine, Azureus, Audacity, Rosegarden, Kino, Blender, mplayer/mplayer-bin, VLC, XMMS, Abiword, OpenOffice.org, and a whole shitload of smaller apps. My world file is 240 lines long, for crying out loud.
On the other hand, my laptop's Gentoo install is only 400MB and kept small so that I can just load the entire OS into memory and I've still got xfce4 with XGL/Compiz and my most commonly used apps installed. My simple file server has an install of about 200MB.