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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:26:32
Message-Id: 200809271026.20054.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux by jaeyoung lee
1 On Saturday 27 September 2008, jaeyoung lee wrote:
2 > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Steven Lembark <lembark@×××××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.....If you can
4 > >
5 > >> do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check
6 > >> should cover you for the updates....
7 > >>
8 > >> I would assume that in most cases source tarballs will be smaller than
9 > >> binaries to download too :)
10 > >
11 > > If you can download the runtime image
12 > > + portage beforehand onto a thumb drive
13 > > or DVD's the Gentoo install isn't even
14 > > all that net hungry.
15 > >
16 > > You might find that Damn Small Linux is,
17 > > well, damn small and doesn't take that
18 > > much bandwidth to download.
19 > >
20 > > --
21 > > Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St.
22 > > Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421
23 > > lembark@×××××××.com +1 888 359 3508
24 >
25 > you can use ArchLinux it's also good:)
26
27 except when it replaces a package with a higher version one without any kind
28 of information to distinguish them (vmlinuz? but which one?)