Re: Using Debian GNU/Linux as base for commercial linux
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980819085733.843G-100000@elm.cbcfreo.wa.edu.au>,
Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> wrote:
> Nearly all files I pull from the mirrors are crunched - either *deb or *z.
> Now changing even 1 byte at the beginning of a file and then recrunching
> results in a file which has nothing in common with the original crunched
> file. At least that is my understanding and it seems to be supported by
> the results I get in practice. I used rsync to change linux-2.0.33 to
> 34 and it downloaded the whole 6.8 megs.
>
> So what does rsync buy me?
rsync is better designed than mirror, and less intensive of host resources.
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