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Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> If the 20MB is a real problem, I think the alternative is to have two |
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> versions of the "minimal CD". Otherwise it seems to me that Gentoo is |
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> discriminating against people who cannot see the screen, and I would |
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> consider that to be very tacky at best. |
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> Someone (rdalek1967) said the problem was an extra 2.5 hours time for |
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> download over dialup. If that is correct, we are looking at 12.5 hours |
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> instead of 10 hours (about 25% increase, but 10 hours is a long time, |
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> and I don't know that 12.5 hours is subjectively that much longer). |
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> So, to answer William's original question, one way or another we should |
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> provide a minimal CD with the speech software on it in my opinion. |
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> Regards, |
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> Ferris |
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> -- |
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> Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) |
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One problem I will mention but in most cases wouldn't matter. Most |
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dial-up ISPs have connect time limits. AT&T for example is 12 hours, my |
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current ISP is 10 but some are as little as 4 hours. When that limit is |
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reached, it disconnects. This happens even if there is data flowing. |
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If, this is a big if here, a person has one of these and cannot resume |
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the download, this could become a issue even if they have a long connect |
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time like AT&T. I use Kget to download huge files or CDs since it has a |
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resume feature. However, are the tools on the CD, wget I guess, resumable? |
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I do think this is a good idea even if it is a separate CD to download. |
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Also something to remember when making the stage tarballs I guess. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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