From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 7:49:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ab-bg.net (ab-bg.net [212.56.11.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D71B437B9E1 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from v0rbiz@ab-bg.net) Received: (qmail 23751 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Mar 2000 15:52:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Mar 2000 15:52:01 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:52:01 +0200 (EET) From: Victor Ivanov To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <53794.953128494@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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