On 18-Oct-00 Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Purple Shirt wrote:
I still think they should move away from the CDs and towards distribution via limited access ftp through membership fees. They could give those members also the ability to burn a copy of an official release iso pack and not only an evaluation one.
The problem with ftp-only distribution is that it's entirely impractical to pick up 3GB worth of material over a connection that's much less than a T1 line.
Paul Abrahams
FTP-type distributions work great...case in point Debian...its updating method
is almost entirely FTP. And its probably used worldwide, even in "expensive"
dialup areas of the world.
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Arlen Carlson