Re: [PLUG] And speaking of installing Debian ...

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 10:38, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> What I ment was using any of the Internet protocols like ftp, rsync,
> http, or using any of the mirror programs.  Getting anything through the
> Internet is slow, but with hte emergence of dsl and cable the speed is
> greatly increased.

Yes, but my point is that this type of connection is not needed. The
install CDs of all the major distributions come with server programs.
You don't need to go to the Internet to get/install these programs.
Update them, yes.

> 
> One of the things about Debian is that they use http as a default for
> apt-get.  You can change it to whatever you want.
> 
> Mike Leone wrote:
> > 
> > >> Uhhmm ... what? Every distribution I've ever used (RH, Mandrake, Debian,
> > >> Slackware) all came with server packages included. I've never had to
> > fetch
> > > >packages off the web to install a web or ftp server.
> > 
> > >And, hopefully, never had to "fetch packages off the web" at all,
> > >being as HTTP is a woefully slow protocol.
> > 
> > >Or did you actually mean s,web,Internet,?
> > 
> > Heh. No, the original quotation (from LeRoy) said "off of the web", so I
> > just continued using it. I presumed he really meant off the Internet, in one
> > fashion or another.
> > 
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