Dear Archers, I switched from Slackware as soon as Arch 0.7 came out in January, and since then I have been with Arch till now. I live in a remote, mountainous area, where my dialup is as slow as 28K although I'm using a 56K modem; however, I was able to keep my system upgraded as often as possible. After the libtool slay and gcc upgrade, I find it very difficult to continue the upgrade because I will have to download about as many as 400 megs of packages. I have been patiently waiting for the release of 0.7.1, and I do hope it will be available soon.
Thank you. Best regards, Heng Bin ======= On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:06:51 -0400 Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the exception of one package improperly installed the last > > time I tried it; the ftp install will get you the very latest > > packages without having to install the older ones from the cd you > > are using. The cd can be quite old to do this. > > I'm with Georg that a regular CD release isn't all that necessary and > that a task-based roadmap would work better. (And in that vein, I > think that's Judd and the gang work, so I *think* what you'd be asking > for then is that they tell us what they're thinking. :) > > However, Bob, just wanted to make sure that you understand that > Bozhidar (if no one else) is saying that if your network connection is > slow (or non-existent), the FTP install is not a very viable option. > I'm not sure how many people these days are using such a connection, > or whether it's important for Arch to accommodate them, but I bet it's > probably more than I think. > > > > > Although Arch is not release type distro like Fedora and SuSE it > > > would be nice if installation cds were made available on a > > > regular basis a-la-Gentoo/BSD... New users will be more tempted > > > to try Arch that way, users with slow or no Internet will be able > > > to upgrade their systems... I think that if Arch produced an > > > installation cd every 6 months containing a snapshot of the > > > essential packages + one extra cd with additional software for > > > users with poor internet access that would be fine. Pacman and > > > the installer will naturaly evolve with every new release though > > > they want need to introduce some ground-breaking features 甘. GUI > > > installer is not required at all, but the current one should be > > > completely revamped in my opion. That way we'll keep it small and > > > simple for more and more users. For honour, glory and Arch > > > hegemony!:) > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Bozhidar > > > -- > http://aconkling.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
