[tex-live] Install Texlive 2008 "The Pirate Bay" website --- uncompressed

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Thu Oct 9 09:02:39 CEST 2008


2008/10/9 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> the other point reinhard misses is that he's in a relatively privileged
> position: able to use wget (and friends) and to pull rather quickly.
> for a significant part of our user base, this simply isn't possible:
> i've friends who save money by having a traffic-limited home connection
> -- loading a 2gb image just isn't in their game plan, and there are
> still -- gasp -- those who use dial-up or isdn connections.

And CTAN doesn't host the uncompressed iso.

Best
   Martin


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