Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 1997 08:20:49 +0400 (GMT-4) | From | Duncan Hill <> | Subject | Re: Packaged Kernel |
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997 bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au wrote:
> If hard drive size and Internet connection speed double, then is the doubling > of the kernel source archive size an issue?
When you consider that some people are at the wrong end of an overloaded E1, or other such circuit (64K), and only get 100B/s, 6 megs is a _very_ long download. 12 megs is worse. It took me 12 hours to pull the A disk set of slackware, at night.
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