debian and net access

[Adam Robert Pitcher]

For what it's worth, the CSE dept is converting our linux lab to the 
Progeny distribution of debian.
And for convience, we support a mirror of Progeny on 
ftp://indian.cse.msu.edu/pub/mirrors/Progeny
ISOs and all.

Adam


Marcel Kunath wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>well I am probably switching net access sometime in the future. I also am less
>and less satisfied by the commercialization of Linux and still have the urge to
>try out Debian and may soon have ample hardware to give it a try.
>
>Now I understand you can install debian over ftp, which is usually my preferred
>way of installations, via dselect and then update via ftp with apt-get.
>
>What I'd like to know is how Debian organizes its package structure. I will
>most likely be limited in the future on speed and amount of downloads and
>wonder if packages are all kept in one place(single server) or strewn apart
>across the world (I heard comments like "add this server to your apt-get list").
>
>I probably would be interested in downloading Debian installation to disk and
>burn it to CD and as well any updates which exist.
>
>Basically with my future provider I fear I need to limit the amount of data
>transfer I do and I want to prepare now if it helps avoid future pain.
>
>I know one can always buy the CD set very cheaply but I am worried about
>staying up to date. What is common practice and how do I minimize the amount of
>data downloaded.
>
>Another question I had was that Debian has three releases going at one time
>stable, testing, unstable. If one uses stable today and it runs fine and then
>suddenly Debian makes the switch that testing becomes stable and unstable
>becomes testing how does this affect me as user. Do I have to watch that I now
>get archaic packages for my "stable" release and not the newly stable packages?
>Do they move the directories around? How does this work?
>
>PS: I got some books for sale some of you may be interested in. They are in very
>good to as-new shape.
>http://montiehouse.com/~kunathma/books.html
>
>Thanks,
>
>   -- Marcel Kunath
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