bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au wrote:
>
> Some other numbers that I think are relevant:
>
> 1 year ago the common hard drive size ~500megs with 1.2gig being the biggest
> that most people were buying. Now 1gig+ is the common size and 3gigs is the
> common purchase size for people not running DOS.
>
> 1 year ago 14K4 Internet access was still pretty common. Now it seems that
> 28K8 is the bare minimum and 33K6 is becoming very common. ISDN and cable
> modems are now starting to be found in homes.
>
> If hard drive size and Internet connection speed double, then is the doubling
> of the kernel source archive size an issue?
>
> Russell Coker
>
> PS I still think that the way to go is to have some scripts to allow the
> upload of a .config file to a web server which will then send a .tgz file with
> complete compiled kernel and modules. I'll run it on my server if someone else
> writes it.
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