OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

THUFIR HAWAT hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Fri May 20 20:46:39 UTC 2005


On 5/20/05, Jerry Gaiser <jerryg at gaiser.org> wrote:
...
> Broadband penetration in the US and especially the Western US is > *much* smaller than those of you in the big cities imagine.
...

I don't like the way this creates a quasi-"internet" class structure.
globally, bandwith is, I believe, a scarce resource.  however, if yum
(or foo, whatever) used compressed binaries wouldn't it be, at worst,
a wash?  provided you're doing the download and install yourself.

-Thufir




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