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Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> Simple case - consider a disconnected machine, that you use sneakernet |
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> to get files to - I've had a few in the past where the hardware was new |
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> enough that networking was broken or not supported yet, and I had to try |
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> a few patches and snapshots before actually getting it to work. |
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I don't see much of an effective difference here. Both ways you've gotta |
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burn files to disk and copy 'em over. |
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> Another case might be a machine where HTTP/FTP access is allowed out via |
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> a filter proxy, but not anything else (I've had a few cases like this in |
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> doing Gentoo consulting). |
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git clone |
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http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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