[PLUG] Rat off a Sinking Ship?

[Preston Crawford]

On 22 Jan 2003, Russell Senior wrote:

> >>>>> "alan" == alan  <alan at clueserver.org> writes:
>
> alan> I don't think he could install Debian.  He has a 56k modem line,
> alan> if that.  Most Debian distributions insist on downloading
> alan> anything and everything.
>
> Not everything, just the packages that are installed, which _can_ be
> rather limited.  Also, you _can_ use CD-ROMs (if you can find them),
> it's just a matter of setting your /etc/apt/sources.list
> appropriately.  But sure, broadband is a pleasant thing to have.

That's one of the nice things about SuSE. They provide patch RPMs for
software the requires patches or security fixes. So updates are rather
minimal badwidth-wise.

Preston