On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:33:18PM +0530, Ambar Roy wrote: >>>>>>Most people on this list are from delhi! I have not seen many >>>>>>places in delhi where you have enough bw to download debian >>>>>>packages off the net
I am from Kochi (Kerala). I have never been in Delhi. >>> >>>>>>( Even a 2mbps link starts to look slow when u do that! >>> I upgraded my potato server to woody in a single day using a 64 kilobits/sec leased line which gives a throughput of 4-5kilobytes/sec. >>> >>>>>>Getting packages from an online source is good only if you either >>>>>>have a very small total download or if you are on a fast link. It >>>>>>is quite nice to see up2date running on a computer hosted at a >>>>>>decent datacenter, though! Haven't used debian much, so I don't >>>>>>know if debian has some nice offline features that I might have >>>>>>missed out on. >>> Debian base is just 30 MB. You can have a server in less than 500 MB. Apt-get is a wonderful tool yaar. I daily updates my server. Regards -- .''`. Dileep M. Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://www.kumarayil.net `. `'` `- Debian GNU/Linux - Choice of the Freedom Lovers _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
