SaidinUnleashed
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Posted: Jan. 19 2005,12:49 |
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John has already said that he has no intention to implement a patch system, because DSL is meant to primarily be a Live-CD distro.
You can't patch a live-cd. It just doesn't work that way.
The filesystem of DSL on the CD exists in a single file. It is at /KNOPPIX/knoppix.
Currently it is at 47.something MB.
So that means that every patch would be the size of that file, since it is usually the only thing that changes.
And you can see why that wouldn't work any better than just downloading the new iso, right?
Even with dialup, 50mb is not that big. My first attraction to DSL was that it would only take about 2 nights to download, compared to 14-16 for Knoppix, and 3 or 4 times that for Mandrake (which I still downloaded, it took me almost 2 months!).
I could download 40mb in 8 hrs, and my connection had a session limit of, you guessed it, 8 hrs. So it would take a good chunk of that second night, because you couldn't browse, check email, or anything while it was going, or you'd lose the connection to the ftp server due to timeout. Our ping was that high.
And we had recently hit a new connection speed record. A blazingly fast 25.2 kbp/s. 21.4 was our average speeed before that. We downloaded at 1-2k/s. And it was fast. So those of you with 56k connections were faster than me until very recently. And sometimes you're still faster O_o.
-J.P.
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