Re: More precise tag following

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 28, 2007, 18:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701281023500.25027@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070128181015.GA25600@thunk.org>

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> 
> Hmm, maybe the right answer is to send a DVD out to someone who is
> willing make copies through a distribution tree to those that want it;
> my guess it will probably be a relatively small set of folks.

Heh. Sneakernet. "The throughput of a truck-full of tapes..."

But it probably would work in this case. Chris - where in the world are you? Maybe somebody with bandwidth can indeed just pick up a DVD, and then make it available to the rest of us through the net (possibly even though a non-public URL - I suspect that Ted is right, and there's only a few people who would actually want to download 3GB to play with).

I was *not* planning on downloading a 48GB KDE archive to then run it through some strange contortions, but I'd love to just download 3GB overnight..

		Linus