From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 16:14:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (spirit.jaded.net [216.94.113.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79BB837BD65 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:14:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00949; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:14:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:14:33 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk To: Doug Barton Cc: Anatoly Vorobey , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Arnout Boer , Matt Heckaman Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000315191433.A729@spirit.jaded.net> References: <20000315212001.A16904@happy.checkpoint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug@gorean.org on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:49:52PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | > 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