Am 2008-03-17 22:42:33, schrieb Karl Goetz: > How practical a "full blown Debian" install is depends on what is in > your full blown installs :)
Hmm, why not put KDE and Gnome with all its depending tools
on its own CD/DVD It would save me at least 3 GBytes.
> > Another point is, that one can assume that a machine not having a DVD
> > drive will not be able to handle more than a very basic OS, but this is
> > provided with the first few CDs.
>
> Not necesarily.
:-)
PXE/BootP -- I have only 2 CD-Rom and 1 DVD-Rom
and 2 DVD/CD-Burner @home in my 26 Computer Network.
> Your making a fairly classic assumption:
> That bandwidth is cheap everyware.
>
> In Europe and the USA that may be the case, but its not universal.
> Australia (1st world) has relatively expensive internet connectivity,
> and Papua New Guinea (3rd world) has *very* expensive connectivity.
Even Spain has horrible prices for ADSL. I know someone who live
on Madeira and he pay 50 Euro for a 1 MBit ADSL connection.
> When your internet connection is 600mb of traffic a month (both
> directions counted on that figure), you dont download isos from an
> internet mirror if humanly posible.
I have to pay 35 Euro/month and have only 500 MByte/month since
where I live, I can not get ISDN or even ADSL and I live in the
near of Strasbourg... The CAPITAL of Europe!!!
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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