F7 KDE spin

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 17:49 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On 1/9/07, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Asking them to download 100s of MB during the installation is a mistake.
> >
> > Then they will have to download the 100s of MB through downloads!
> > In the end, it is the same thing.
> 
> Downloading hundreds of different files is much slower than
> downloading one file of the same size.
Only if having a very reliable and fast connection. With low bandwidth
or unreliable connections, the opposite applies.

> Also, the initial spin is likely (?) to be downloaded via bittorrent,
> which is not an option for yum when it needs individual packages.
> 
> A single iso download can also feed multiple PCs (up to 5 in my case),
> which is far more efficient than downloading the same hundreds of
> files several times over.
With a couple tricks applied (sharing yum caches over a network) yum can
do the same.

Ralf