Ben Badgley wrote: ... > One disadvantage of rural life is lacking options for high speed > connections. We make do on dial up but it can be frustrating at times. > ...
If that frustration relates to waiting for Debian packages to download after you've selected to install them: Consider maintaining a local mirror (updated at night, mirrored with, say, debmirror), so that when you want to install a package, usually you'll already have it locally. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]