From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 13:50:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DA237BADE for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:49:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02025; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:49:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:49:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: current@freebsd.org, Arnout Boer , Matt Heckaman Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? In-Reply-To: <20000315212001.A16904@happy.checkpoint.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message