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From: "Matt Archer"
Ethernet is pitifully slow compared to the disk I/O of any modern computer.
A 1x cdrom is only 150K !! A 12x is only about 14Mbit You have a machine old enough to have only a cd and yet it's somehow a new 52x? Ok, a 52x cd is still only about 62Mbit Meanwhile your nic is anywhere from 1mbit to 5mbit over the internet to 100mbit locally. Even with tcp/ip overhead and pci bus bottlenecks you usually network significantly faster than a cd, especially locally. What's next? You somehow have a blazing fast cd drive but only a 10mbit nic? Further, thousands of others have the same inexplicably retarded config such that suse or anyone else should care about spending effort to support it? -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org