On Wed, December 8, 2004 11:55 am, Volker Kuhlmann said: >> I have never understood why people want broadband for gentoo, but will >> happily install a binary distro that immediately wants 500M of updates >> and are happy with a modem. > > Let's stay realistic though, 500MB seems to be a tad high. I don't know > for other distros, but the not-so-young SuSE 9.1 has about 260MB of > updates available for a typical desktop user, of which maybe only half > would be actually needed and downloaded. That's about 130MB, rather a > lot less than 500. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. >
That's about right for a default net install of Debian. Can't remember how much the initial update to FC3 was, but I *do* remember moaning about it. Obviously, now those nice telecom boys have upgraded me to 2Mbit without me asking, it's less of a hassle, but almost 40 minutes to get up to date with debian... (: However, I do think it's a bit pointless being smug about not being in dependency hell - I can only think of a single distro that I've used that hasn't done it, and I've given up on slackware. Cheers, Steve -- Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off
