Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:52:01 +0200 (EET) From: Victor Ivanov <v0rbiz@ab-bg.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151748210.23715-100000@bissy.ab-bg.net> In-Reply-To: <53794.953128494@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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> > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:43:27 GMT, Paul Robinson wrote: > > > If you save 20Mb, over a reliable 56Kb modem, you've saved them somewhere > > in the region of one and a half hours... I think you guys are too used to > > your broadband... :) > > And you're forgetting that, as I said in my original reply, people with > 56K modems usually benefit from hardware compression over their link > anyway. > Har har. I have 33.6... compression? Har har. Better than gzip? :) But I *don't* need downloading 600Mb (jeee!)... Usualy there are ISPs who download such things and then sell some CDs (just the media:)). And they don't give a shXt about 20MB more or less... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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