OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon May 23 12:36:25 UTC 2005


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 packages _are_ compressed.

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