-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/07 20:46, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 08:21:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Personally, I find that weekly or bi-weekly upgrades are adequate. > > Ron, I know that it will vary, possibly widely, but what size of > download are you typically seeing on your weekly or bi-weekly upgrades? > > I'm on slow dial-up (generally no more than 2 KB/s except for short > bursts) and I can only use the phone during the day with interruptions > for when its needed.
You're right: it depends on if big honkers like openoffice, iceweasel, icedove, celestia-common, "gcc" or any of the other myriad Big Packages are being upgraded. Today, there's about 120MB of data to download. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG221tS9HxQb37XmcRAgOjAJ9Y3AH5dg2wsfNQtTDzmhmBs5yskwCcCpID vQtQbdKWwTZ2EOcQ4LY7p8Q= =yN88 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]