On 10/07/2008, at 4:04 AM, Abraham Tehrani wrote: > > What is the difference between downloading a 650MB CD ISO, > installing, then > firing up IPS to download another 1 GIG worth of updates, then > another X MB > of extra applications; instead of downloading everything you need in > one > shot? > > At the end of the day the total number of bytes transferred is > roughly the > same. In fact having the DVD ISO *saves* bandwidth if you have > multiple > machines at your house, no need to download the extra packages for > each and > every machine.
There might be opportunities to do something different here for multiple machines - if the package manager could act like a typical torrent client, and allow seeding, that might be a unique way to solve things. Glynn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
