Re: DVD Playing on Linux - help for others??

[Jason Greenwood]

Plus, with Gentoo, you have this equation: Download time + compile time 
before use. Binary distros only have the download time component. Didn't 
mean to make this a distro war: sorry. :-/

Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
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