[CLUE-Tech] Impressive, Green One

Matthew D Robinson matthewd at robinson-howell.com
Fri Jul 2 19:31:13 MDT 2004


>> >Nate> Yay Novell for allowing SuSE to release the ISO images!> >> >Agreed. More linux the better IMHO. ;)
>> >Amen!  (GRIN)>> What is all this support for ISO's??????? The Germans default install> over the net while the Americans need 5 disks of plastic.
>The Germans also have *MUCH* wider availability of higher-speed connections, 
>while the telcos in the US got greedy and priced it out of reach for most 
>folks.  How many people do you know that have ISDN?


>> What is the infatuation, nay support for burning burning burning when the> disks will be obsolete in less that 6 months?
>It's not a matter of archiving (though it _IS_ handy to have that stuff 
>available locally),  it's a matter of transport.  And at this point it's 
>still more economical to transport large quantities of data that way,  at 
>least here in the US.

Many people have some form of high speed internet so I think there is more to it than availability.  Red Hat doesn't have one reference on their site indicating that FTP and HTTP installs are an option.

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