On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:50:57 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Debian! > > Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's. That > just about prevents all people on 56kb modems (many in the so-called > "third" world) from downloading them
Those 13 CDs will provide binary packages for the *entire* Debian package
set; only a few CDs, at most (and possibly only one), will be needed to
do a base install on an individual machine; any other packages you needed
could be obtained via network, as usual, with a lot less need for dload
time than fetching all 13 CDs. If the packages are going to be roughly
sorted through the CDs based on popularity (as the notice suggested), then
your chances of needing anything at all off a CD drop as you go back
through the CD set, making network install of the remaining packages
much more sensible than downloading the CDs they're on. So unless
you're doing a large number of heterogenous installs, I wouldn't think
you'd need to download all the CDs, or even most of them.
-c
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