Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:02:23 +0300 | From | Tarkan Erimer <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0-rc2 |
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On 06/07/2011 09:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I suspect not a lot of people actually use the tarballs these days. > It's just much more convenient to get the tree with git.
I always use tarballs instead of git. Because; I have several Linux boxes and just one time I download the kernel tarball then spreading it with scp to other Linux boxes easily. Otherwise, I have to prepare a tarball by myself to distribute it which is a time waste and unpractical. Also, getting the whole 700-800 MB of kernel tree with git is not very Internet bandwidth (Consider that in some ISPs and countries, Internet usage is limited by monthly quotas.) friendly.
BTW, I'm eagerly waiting to test out the latest 3.0-rc2 when the corrected tarballs uploaded to kernel.org :-)
Tarkan
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