Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:24:42 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <20000316112442.A21205@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000316130422.00a98d90@207.227.119.2>; from jeff-ml@mountin.net on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:39PM -0600 References: <8aorf2$htp$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200003152209.XAA22951@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <4.3.2.20000316130422.00a98d90@207.227.119.2>
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:39PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > >Also take into account that many people are downloading and > >recoding the images on Windows boxes, which don't have gzip > >by default. > > And then they can xfer it over to their FBSD system, etc.. You're suggesting that folks who burn CDs in order to install FreeBSD should have a FreeBSD machine handy? (Blah, anyway. This is a silly discussion. Why are people who are bandwidth-starved downloading ISOs in the first place?) -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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