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Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's



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On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:50:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That 
> just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called 
> "third" world) from downloading them and will I ever see the set if I 
> "order" them in Mexico by mail?

So what?  RTFM and you would know that in the vast majority of cases
you only need the first CD and a network connection.  Yeah, installing
over a modem sucks rocks, but I've done it several times.  The trick
is get it to where it's time to download packages just before you go
do something time-consuming like head to work or go to sleep.

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