On Friday 20 May 2005 00:37, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > why should any install of any distribution require more than one cd? > If most users are downloading either multiple cd or dvd .iso's, then > they are wasting their time and bandwith unless they use everything on > those downloads. > > all anyone needs is the "minimal," although, of course, what is and > isn't minimal is contentious. the rest should be installed with yum, > or emerge, or foo, or whatever. > > Of course, my rant presuposes an internet connection. > > -Thufir I sit on the end of 9 or 10 *miles* of crappy copper - No DSL. I sit on a dead-end gravel road with about 15-20 other familys - No Cable Television and therefore No Cable Modems. Satellite service is expensive and unreliable, when it's available. So I use dialup and I feel lucky when I can get a 21.6K connection. None of the automatic updaters are practical for me, so I manually pick and choose what I think is important. Broadband penetration in the US and especially the Western US is *much* smaller than those of you in the big cities imagine. -- Jerry Gaiser in North Plains, Oregon USA (Zone8a) - 45.6933N 123.0418W
