Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:14:33 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315191433.A729@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151348130.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>; from Doug@gorean.org on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0800 References: <20000315212001.A16904@happy.checkpoint.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151348130.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
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| > Alas, that is just not true for many of us who are in bandwidth-poor | > countries. Over here, it can take 3 to BIGNUM hours to download an ISO | > image (there aren't any up-to-date local mirrors), depending on time of | > day and the phase of the moon. I think compression would definitely help. | | As much as I sympathize with the plight of people who have to pay | for slow b/w, we're talking about something that is a luxury, not a | necessity. Sure, having a gzip'ed version of the iso image avaiable is | probably a good idea, but if you want your stuff gzip'ed just do an ftp | install. Those bits are already gzip'ed for you. Of course, you can always be good little FreeBSD users and order the CD. -Dan -- Dan Moschuk (TFreak!dan@freebsd.org) "Waste not fresh tears on old griefs." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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