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i use a small script to do a emerge -f --update world at night and it brings |
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the download wait to 0. ppp and gentoo get along just as nicely as any other |
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distro. |
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eric- |
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On Friday 26 April 2002 10:24 pm, James Gibson wrote: |
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> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, William McArthur wrote: |
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> > Gentoo isn't modem friendly. On my newest gentoo workstation which is |
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> > about a week old I've already downloaded over 500megs of source |
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> > packages. While it is possible to download this over a modem it won't be |
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> > fun. |
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> You just lack the patience to put up with the dial-up. I've been running |
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> Gentoo since well before the 1.0 stage and have been keeping it up to |
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> date, all on a 56k dial-up, including 3 new versions of XFree. For those |
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> of us that don't need an instant gratification fix it works quite well. |
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> And guess what: I've probablly pulled down 500MB this week also. |
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> That being said I find it baffling why a pppd setup is NOT on the install |
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> medium. The bandwidth hogs like yourself would hardly notice; what's |
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> another meg on the download to you?! and it would allow the people who |
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> want to, to do an install that way. |
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> James Gibson |
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