Moinak Ghosh wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> > wrote: >> 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.
Right, but we were just discussing what was offered by the distribution themselves; not third parties. Third parties could effectively do the same thing right now with the distribution constructor for OpenSolaris, or with pkgrecv in the very near future. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
