Got Gutsy DVDs?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 04:50:10PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > I would be interested to know *why* you use it.  The cases you described
> > (installing on many computers, and on computers not belonging to you)
> > don't explain why the CD is unsuitable for you.
> > 
> > I would be surprised if the DVD actually saves you bandwidth over the CD,
> > given that the DVD essentially contains two copies of every default
> > application (one in pre-installed form, and one in .deb form).
> 
> That doesn't seem so odd - I'm sure I downloaded at least a couple of
> hundred MB more files after installing the CD the last time.  It would save
> considerably if those extra files only needed to be downloaded once when
> you were installing to _many_ computers, but I really don't see why he
> can't have his own mirror.

The DVD is about 3.5 gigabytes larger than the CD, so one would need to
install an extra 200M worth of packages over 17 times in order to make up
the difference.

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 - mdz