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On 17:38 Fri 26 Sep, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install |
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> Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but |
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> the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dialup |
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> connection (33600) only. As a result, I need to choose Linux with minimal |
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> net traffic in mind (just security updates will be sufficient). There are |
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> no any special demands (OOo, images and PDF viewer, Firefox, Thunderbird |
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> and Krusader (or other two panel file manager) will be a sufficient apps |
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> set for beginning, + booting to level 5). |
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> Suggestions? |
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> P.S. You see, there is a little sense to address this question to, say, suse |
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> or ubuntu or other candidate's community :-) - so, excuse please for OT. |
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> Andrew |
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You could limit the bandwidth usage (see man wget and man make.conf, |
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iirc), and run emerge --sync once a week, and emerge -u --fetchonly to |
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fetch packages at night when the net isn't going to be in use as often |
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(or during the day durning classes or work), then install at your own |
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leisure. |
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Also, you could just run glsa-check to update security problems. |
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if you want another distro, and they are new to Linux, I would probably |
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suggest Debian or one of its knock-offs (besides Ubuntu) to get them |
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started, and see if they like it. |
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Hope this helps some. |
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I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user friendly |