Posted by: mt_nixnut
on February 29, 2004 02:43 AM
Size and freshness is what comes to my mind.
If you are trying to make a distro for download. A ton of bandwidth is wasted on things you may never use. Or more likely, in need of patching before you even get it installed. So installing a small core and downloading just things you want/need allows you to build a cleaner more up to date distro with less wasted bandwidth/time. For example if I want to download and install Fedora right now I will download 3 cds worth of ISOs and then download over 100mg of updates just to bring it to its current state. (Just did this) Now it you could download a small core and build just what you want from fresh packages on the net I see HUGE benefits. I think models like this are going to be on the rise as we see the shrink wrap model become obsolete. This kind of thinking along with apt type packaging systems allows for a much more dynamic method of distributing and updating software.
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Re:What are the benefits?
Posted by: mt_nixnut on February 29, 2004 02:43 AMIf you are trying to make a distro for download. A ton of bandwidth is wasted on things you may never use. Or more likely, in need of patching before you even get it installed. So installing a small core and downloading just things you want/need allows you to build a cleaner more up to date distro with less wasted bandwidth/time. For example if I want to download and install Fedora right now I will download 3 cds worth of ISOs and then download over 100mg of updates just to bring it to its current state. (Just did this) Now it you could download a small core and build just what you want from fresh packages on the net I see HUGE benefits. I think models like this are going to be on the rise as we see the shrink wrap model become obsolete. This kind of thinking along with apt type packaging systems allows for a much more dynamic method of distributing and updating software.
just a thought or 10
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