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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 |