On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:45, robin wrote:
> David E. Fox wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:14:18 -0400
> > lake-wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >>That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their 
> >>budget to join the club, you can download the i586 directory tree, create 
> > 
> > 
> > Why not get the CE ISO's as many have done, and then urpmi them up to final update
> > status?
> 
> I did that on my office machine, which has an ethernet connection, but I 
> wouldn't want to try that at home with a modem connection!
> 
> Sir Robin

<soapbox>

That is becoming something of an issue with me personally. Everyone else
appears to be of the mindset that everyone else has a broadband
connection and that they can happily urpmi everything to do this that
and the other thing - which is not entirely true. Doing large scale
updates is entirely out of the question for me unless I can do an
upgrade or complete install from already created CD's. Really does tend
to raise my ire.

Aside from that, after many weeks of watching the MDK 10 issues and
quirks, I'm resolved to sit and wait (as I always do) for a "non whole
number" version. Every distro, every version that has been of a "whole
number" has been, in my eyes, a "testing ground" and the .1 or .2
version has been the better bet.

I've tested 10CE - played around with it enough to see that it's not
going to be anything I can "upgrade" to or anything that I can install
on my working box without heaps of headache, heaps of hacking, and heaps
of change. And I'm certainly NOT going to get rid of my trusty linmodem
"just to get by".

Mind you, I'd really like to have MDK 10+, but I fear it's going to be
some time off - same as I waited for MDK 9.1 - which after I HAD waited,
it was worth the wait in the end.

I'm not trying to deter anyone from anything - I'm venting here. But
bear in mind I'm also stating something that most of y'all "oldies" will
already know.

I'm also just mad as a wet hen that everyone seems to think that most of
the world is capable of having broadband...ahem.

</soapbox>

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