[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

[Nick B.]

Packages.  Packages of everything you could ever imagine, and many many things
you could not.  It's kind of incredible what's been packaged in debian.  I ran
a mirror for a while, and spent a while looking through it.
	Nick
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:32:21PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm downloading Debian 4.0 (brand new stable release) DVD images, that weigh in at 4.4, 4.4, and 4.3 GB/disc, and I am wondering What the hell is on those DVD!
> 
> Granted, one may be source files, but really, that's over 13 Gigs of "stuff" - has it gotten that bad?
> 
> They listed 26 install CDs, IIRC... (I did a double take to make sure they weren't talking about floppies ;^)
> 
> WTF?
> 
> Also, using bittorrent I'm getting 15K/sec download rates for each of the three - will it really take THREE DAYS TO DOWNLOAD DEBIAN!?!?!?!?!?
> 
> Lionel
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