<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 March 2011 10:25, Graeme Geldenhuys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:graemeg.lists@gmail.com">graemeg.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Op 2011-03-07 12:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd het geskryf:<div class="im"><br>
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apt-get etc. However with the generally-cheap Internet connections in<br>
Europe<br>
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That's unfortunately just a dream for South Africans. Here the general thinking is "lets screw the consumer for as long as we can". :-/<div class="im"><br>
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years ago. You can obviously also download a complete set of binaries to<br>
DVDs, and a properly-configured system should then use those in<br>
preference to getting them from a remote server.<br>
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As an interim solution I had relatively good success with a program called AptOnCD. But that only worked if I kept my work and home PC's relatively in sync with applications and architecture.<div class="im"><br>
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