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On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:58:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Donnerstag 10 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> > HI group, |
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> > My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything |
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> > and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need. |
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> > But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world |
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> > whenever it's required without having to take days of dialup time. |
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> > Question is, when's that? I assume with fewer packages, updating is |
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> > not as urgent as on a big desktop with lots of HD space and lots of |
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> > apps. |
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> > Is there some sort of rule-of-thumb when it comes to timing or spacing |
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> > their updates that members use to keep gentoo happy? |
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> > Maxim |
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> I do 'it' every morning. I am still tired, eix-sync, when I come back with |
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> my tea, I see the updates, emerge -auvD world, ready when the sugar is in |
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> the tea. Checking the list. Drinking some of the tea and contemplating the |
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> updates, then 'y'. when I am ready to rock, the updates are done. |
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Same here, except in my case: |
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s/tea/triple espresso/g |
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But I doubt the wisdom of updating an SSD netbook on the machine itself: |
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1. Wear on the SSD itself with all those compiles |
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2. It's sloooooow |
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Maybe wait for Neil Bothwick to show up and ask him for the gory details - he |
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seems to have gotten it down pat on his Eee. |
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I know for myself, I made the conscious decision for Gentoo on my desktop and |
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notebook but the Aspire One runs Ubuntu Remix for this very reason. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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