On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:53, Tim Wright wrote: > Using Debian, you really need a fast Internet connection. I don't > recommend it for anyone who just has a dial-up system.
hey! I resent that ;) I have a dialup connection and I manage just fine thank-you-very-much :) Although I run testing, unstable has fscked up on me too many times (I only want a few bleeding edge things, such as KDE, and I prefer to compile them myself). So I don't update nearly as much as someone following unstable, but still.... Last time I reinstalled from scratch (around the time potato had just become stable) I did a base install (with potato), upgraded it to testing (using the NZ citylink mirror), and then every time I think of an application I want I just apt-get it (most thing's ain't that big, only takes a few minutes usually). A few big things I want the latest version of (XFree86, KDE 3) I leave downloading the source overnight - and when I do a complete system upgrade I leave it overnight, sometimes two (this of course doesn't get the big things I compiled myself, which is good). This is really no big deal - and, I must point out, VERY preferable to downloading 1 (let alone 3) complete CD images of distro-of-your-choice. For those of us with modem connections, apt-get is great :-) Cheers, Gareth ps. crave 0xC0FFE and bandwidth ;)
