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Delta Compression for Linux Security Patches?
cperciva asks: "For people without fast internet connections, it is often impractical to download large security patches. In order to avoid to reduce patch sizes, some operating systems -- starting with FreeBSD over a year ago, and recently followed by Mac OS X and Windows XP SP2 -- have started to use delta compression (also known as binary diffs, which constitutes a portion of my doctoral thesis), and can often reduce patch sizes by over a factor of 50. In light of the obvious benefits, I have to ask: When will Linux vendors follow suit?"
... their biggest customers start using dialup.
You mean to tell me that beast I downloaded was just a diff? Jesus H. Christ!
I have reason to believe that Daniel Lyons, author of the Forbes article is in fact the pen name of one John Doe, a 12 year old trailer park dwelling asexual dwarf who suffers from a severe dehabilitating mental illness known as "stupidity".
Hope that helps.
...toggle their diffs in from the front panel.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
But if you're posting to Slashdot on a Friday night, you probably don't have a friend's house to go over to.
when will Gentoo get this? ;)
Your CPU is not doing anything else, at least do something.