On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Daniel Tasch wrote: > This is not just a problem in contries like India. I am in the US > and am still on dialup, and can only get 26k at that. I have to > update my redhat by mirroring the updates at work where I have a > good connection, burning a CD, and brining it home via "sneakernet". > > I would love to be able to use Debian, but dealing with a new > packaging system along with it's extreem network-centeredness is > making that impossible. What Debian really needs is to give some > consideration to people who have to do this manually.
You can get packages to your machine using apt-zip on Debian as well;[1] you just have to have bandwidth available somewhere. [Which is a slightly different problem than the one facing users in places where the nearest network connection of any type is outside of the range of sneakernet.] Don Armstrong 1: Indeed, I'd suspect that this is far more easily done on Debian than in most other distributions. -- All bad precedents began as justifiable measures. -- Gaius Julius Caesar in "The Conspiracy of Catiline" by Sallust http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
