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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:54:53 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
Message-ID:  <p06002030bbe08b5ce74d@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200311190238.hAJ2c1b4096141@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200311182307.hAIN7Wpm000717@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031118182148.P35215@pooker.samsco.home> <200311190238.hAJ2c1b4096141@apollo.backplane.com>

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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.

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



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