Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

[John]

On Sunday, February 26, 2012 07:36 Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
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>  I'm the resident old fart around here
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> I beg your pardon.  ;-)
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> Dale
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> :-)  :-)

  Heh, if I can find someone close by that has a fast connection, I bet *I'll* be the new 
resident old fart at 50 years of age just this last Monday the 20th.

  I figure if I can find a fast connection, I can get what I need downloaded and burned 
onto a dvd. I'll just 'update' things one or two at a time so that it's easy on my dial-up 
connection. If I really, really need to update something like a kernel or something else 
that's huge for a dial-up download, I'll just find that fast connection again and put it 
on a cd or dvd (I *can) 'update' (emerge? still trying to get all the nomenclature down) 
from a cd or dvd, right?) and do it that way.

  A question about the stage 3 tarball thing...if I download that instead of the iso 
(which is for 486 and up, whereas the tarball is 686 and better), how do I burn it (the 
tarball) as an iso onto a dvd so I can install Gentoo? Also, Distrowatch.com says that 
Gentoo has the latest in 'packages' as Feb 26, yet when I downloaded the tarball of 
CONTENTS, it shows mostly things (gcc, glibc, kernel, etc) that are used in the January 
release of Gentoo 12.0, not what Distrowatch has in their list of up-to-date lib's and 
such for the 26th of Feb. Where do I find the 'package' that Distrowatch seems to have 
found with almost everything being the latest and greatest?


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