From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750949AbVHIFLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:11:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932293AbVHIFLx (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:11:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:53687 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750948AbVHIFLw (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:11:52 -0400 Message-ID: <42F83AFF.3080806@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:11:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Sillik CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webmaster@kernel.org Subject: [KORG] Re: Changes to kernel.org website References: <42F839DE.1020604@temple.edu> In-Reply-To: <42F839DE.1020604@temple.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Sillik wrote: > I think the following should be changed on the kernel.org web site? > > In "New to Linux?" Section > > Note, however, that most distributions are very large, > so unless you have a _very_fast_Internet_link_ you may want > to save yourself some hassle and purchase a CD-ROM with > a distribution; such CD-ROMs are available from a number > of vendors. > > I don't think that "very fast internet link is a good way to describe > what is meant? > > Maybe we should tell them how large the distrubution are (650mb and > more) or > instead we could say say that we recommend above a certain bandwidth. > > The confusion is as follows: > I have a good cable connection (~5mb/s) but I wouldn't consider this > "very fast" because > I know of much faster connections. Would this scare me away from > downloading Linux > or even using it at all? Probably. > > Just thought it's best to be clear. > > Nick Sillik > n.sillik@temple.edu > Good point. That was written in 1997 or so, and isn't really accurate anymore. -hpa