On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >> ? A hearty +1 to all this. Taking bandwidth for granted is a big mistake. > > There are two views to this. ?By not forcing users to download a large DVD, > we're focusing on not wasting bandwidth since they download a "core" set of > packages, and then add on exactly what they need. >
Someone with large BW availability downloads the whole shebang once and then the affected users use 0 bandwidth, >> ? There are large segments of the Globe where bandwidth is neither >> ? readily available nor cheap. While I stay in Bangalore and have access >> ? to 1MBps bandwidth with unlimited data traffic at reasonable rates and >> ? even 8MBps bandwith available to homes, the vast regions outside >> ? Bangalore are not that well endowed. The pittance that goes there in the >> ? name of broadband is 256KBps via wire and 180KBps via CDMA wireless. >> ? Imagine doing a 'pkg image-update' over 180KBps flaky wireless >> connection! > > The flipside of course are users where the amount of bandwidth isn't the > issue, but rather the connectivity itself. ?However, I would argue these > users would have just as limited an experience with many GNU/Linux > distributions to a certain extent since at last check, Debian doesn't offer > a DVD with all 15,000 packages from Universe, etc. either ;) > You can buy large Debian and other package collections from cheapbytes.com. [..]> > You'll be happy to know that we'll be providing an ISO image of the 2009.06 > repository soon with instructions on how to use the repository from the DVD > directly, or to setup your own. > This will indeed be a good move. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
