Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:15, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
>
> > i remember a year or so ago when i complained about this worthless
> > practice i said that it would end up consuming hundreds of megabytes
> > - i was told that was ridiculous, it would never happen.
>
> Megabytes! Horrors. You counted up to 96 MB in your computation,
> which I will assume to be correct.
>
> Current cost of hard disk is something between $1.00 and $1.50 per
> gigabyte.
>
> So that means that 96 MB costs the whopping sum of about twelve cents.
> Whom shall I write a check to? And if it's hundreds of megabytes,
> which I'm happy to consider, then the cost of holding all those
> kernels might well rise to a whole dollar.
>
> I just added up the size of all i386 packages in the pool on auric.
> (There are 15,688 of them, since there are multiple versions of many).
> That comes to the whopping amount of 6,367,729,045 bytes, which looks
> like a lot, except that it's really 6GB. Oh my golly, that might be a
> whopping $10.
>
> The total size of /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool on auric is about 63
> GB. Which is about right, since we have ten released ports.
10% of the whole distribution : that's a lot
Moreover bandwidth costs too.
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