At 6:38 PM -0800 11/18/03, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > So you are talking about 1.5 MBytes less bandwidth, > which is nothing compared to the cost of doing a full > install over the net. Yah, yah, /sbin too... but you > get the idea. Many freebsd users (me for one) are still living on a modem, where even one bump of 1.5 meg is a significant issue... Remember that the issue we're talking about is security updates, not full system upgrades. "Everyone" would want the security updates, even if they're on a slow link. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 17:54:58 UTC
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