Kenneth Porter wrote:
On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:24 AM +0800 John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
I don't know how much email I would eliminate by dropping email for Centos < C4, but when I move to CentOS 5 I will lose interest in C4 and then there will be savings.
How much mail is release-specific? I would guess such threads would be mostly about installation, so it might be better to split off a -install list. Traffic about getting drivers to work might also be redirected to such a list.
Installation and remastering 4 is very different from 5, following the intro of yum into Anaconda.
Applications to do stuff tend to change wu-imapd is out, dovecot and cyrus are in. Pine is out, mutt is in. Networking configuration's changed. lprNG is out, CUPS is in. Lotsa stuff changes. Have a look at the release notes, see what's expunged and what's deprecated.
Runtime packages should be pretty common among all releases and might as well be in -users.
You might also consider reading the list with a news reader through gmane to avoid the download cost.
That would be worse: [summer@bilby ~]$ ping -c4 terad.net PING terad.net (203.15.140.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=1116 ms 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=1345 ms 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=366 ms 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=1504 ms
--- terad.net ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 5380ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 366.190/1083.366/1504.692/436.421 ms, pipe 3 [summer@bilby ~]$
I'm pulling a gbyte/month through a modem. Interactive through that modem is largely out.