Den 2010-10-31 02:12:29 skrev Graham Lauder: > On Saturday 30 Oct 2010 02:47:26 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > On Friday 29 October 2010, my mailbox was graced by a missive > > > > from Kira <[email protected]> who wrote: > > > This one is already been replied: In some place in this world, some > > > countries don't have enough bandwidth to support such big downloading > > > data(May cause days...). > > > A might perfect solution is that making custom images according to the > > > need of downloader, but currently we don't seem to have such plan. > > > > Fot such a case, a CD .iso that does a minimal install (with all locales > > offered), and leave the big packages (OO, Gimp, all the games etc) to be > > downloaded at leisure later. > > Oh god nonono! You obviously have a broadband connection.
Well, it is stil a good idea then, as only the needed packages need be downloaded. > CD or DVD, either is too big to download on my dialup. a 700meg cd would > take a week to download considering that I have to keep phone line free > during the day and early evening. I remeber when i also had to have a CD running for a week. I would have appreciated if i could geta base install, and then just add what big parts I really needed. > (that's of course as long as the server > supports resuming and the download doesn't break, which of course you don't > find out until the end, then you have to start all over. :/ We should always make sure to have bittorrent working. Bittorrent checks and auto re-downloads broken parts. It can even repair broken isos. Unfortunately *some* people use ISPs that supress bittorent traffic. > People with limited connectivity want to be able to obtain media with > everything they are likely to need plus all the options if possible. ... > Please, DVD and a way to obtain the media at a reasonable price. Yes full DVD(s) for thoose that need it would be good for them.
