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Re:The Web of Alexandria by FeepingCreature on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @05:22AM (#9610196)
100GB is cheap to store, but it's not cheap to download, for you or for the distributor. (At least, if everyone does it.) With free software, load-on-demand makes way more sense - if you need a purely local install, buy a DVD set.
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Re:The Web of Alexandria by chubot on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:33AM (#9611592)
Well, BitTorrent pretty much solved this problem a decade ago. I imagine that you can download a base image, and then have a torrent sync in the background.

Most people have 100 GB free on their hard disk indefinitely these days, so why not?

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Re:The Web of Alexandria by tomjen3 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:56AM (#9611793)
That used to be true, but I rather not waste 100gb of my SSD in case I wanted the source code to VIM.
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