OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[William Hooper]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> 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.

The RPM payload is already compressed.

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William Hooper