In article <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960316113519.11490A-100000@mail.thecia.net> Speed Racer <shagboy@thecia.net> writes:
> here's why _I_ think it's "better":
> 1. cuts down on size of kernel - and yes, i can spare 2 megs of disk
> space to hold it. the reason to cut down the size is that not all of us
> have t1's to our homes yet. yes, believe it or not, some of us still use
> 14.4 PPP links and have to share a phone, and don't find it very
> entertaining to download for an hour and a half a bunch of extra stuff i
> don't need.
I too have just a 14.4 PPP link and I suffer from prohibitively high
prices that the German Telekom (still a monopoly for private
telecommunication) charges for local telephone calls. Thus I
appreciate the newsgroup de.alt.sources.linux.patches. Thanks to
Thomas and Michael, this moderated newsgroup always carries the most
recent kernel patches and the KCS (kernel change summary). I exchange
news daily and thus I usually get kernel patches with at most a two
day delay. As I receive just the patch files, it does not make much of
a difference, whether the kernel source tree is 2MB or 4MB compressed
size; patches are always a lot smaller. Maybe, your Internet service
provider also carries this newsgroup; if that is not the case, either
ask him to provide the group or organize a CfD and CfV for an
international group that mirrors d.a.s.l.p.
Markus
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