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At 6:38 PM -0800 11/18/03, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>     So you are talking about 1.5 MBytes less bandwidth,
>     which is nothing compared to the cost of doing a full
>     install over the net.  Yah, yah, /sbin too... but you
>     get the idea.

Many freebsd users (me for one) are still living on a modem,
where even one bump of 1.5 meg is a significant issue...

Remember that the issue we're talking about is security
updates, not full system upgrades.  "Everyone" would want
the security updates, even if they're on a slow link.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu