Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:49:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151348130.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20000315212001.A16904@happy.checkpoint.com>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:
> 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.
Doug
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