Re: New release over due
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> The problem is not that Debian itself is out of date. The problem is
> that you can't get an upgraded Debian on CD. Not everyone wants to
> download hundreds of megabytes over their 33.6kbps connection to upgrade
> their systems to the latest stuff.
So ... you are saying that there is a market niche for someone to produce
snapshots on an as-requested or subscription basis like I-Connect.net in
Oregon used to do ... oh, about three years ago.
I am in between changing DSL vendors and have been using a dialup
connection until the new vendor hooks up later this week and I feel your
pain. Tonites updates to a system that was last updated about 4 days ago
were reporting a 3 hour download time.
Maybe the answer is a friendlier method of selecting which packages to
download like dselect has rather than trying to use apt-get.
Using the ftp method of dselect, you have the option of choosing which
files to download. This might save you some time.
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