On 2018-02-21 08:54, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 21.02.2018 01:24, Felix Miata wrote:
Axel Braun composed on 2018-02-20 20:01 (UTC+0100):
If bandwidth is a topic, then you are in an emerging region, to phrase it positively.
For those who've never ventured outside Europe, I can understand how that might seem so.
I think you (and Basil, but for him it's expected ;-)) are misreading Axels statement.
I read it as "if we are considering low bandwidth as an issue, then Blu-Ray media and USB sticks are not the solution, because often it will be the case that people with low bandwidth will not have the option of USB boot and Blu-Ray drives".
On the contrary. I have had low bandwidth for many years, 1 megabit per second adsl. I downloaded the DVD taking days (say, intermittently during the nights), because that is far easier that attempting to install directly from network: the initial install or the upgrades can take a day or two. Others download the DVD on a library or asking a friend or club or school or workplace. Of course, in that case it is easier to have two DVDs: one for KDE/Gnome, another for the rest. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)