| > Alas, that is just not true for many of us who are in bandwidth-poor
| > countries. Over here, it can take 3 to BIGNUM hours to download an ISO
| > image (there aren't any up-to-date local mirrors), depending on time of
| > day and the phase of the moon. I think compression would definitely help.
|
| As much as I sympathize with the plight of people who have to pay
| for slow b/w, we're talking about something that is a luxury, not a
| necessity. Sure, having a gzip'ed version of the iso image avaiable is
| probably a good idea, but if you want your stuff gzip'ed just do an ftp
| install. Those bits are already gzip'ed for you.
Of course, you can always be good little FreeBSD users and order the CD.
-Dan
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