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Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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> ======= On Saturday 27 September 2008, Dale wrote: ======= |
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>> Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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>>> ======= On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: ======= |
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>>> ... |
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>>>> I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. |
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>>>> My desktop - KDE. :) |
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>>>> The secret is: emerge-delta-webrsync for updating portages and deltup |
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>>>> for sources. |
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>>> That user isn't Gentoo-compatible :-) |
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>> I have dial-up here too and I just sync and download once a week or so. |
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>> What's all that delta stuff anyway? |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Saying Gentoo-incompatible I mean that user will be migrated from m$win (I |
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> force this migration, but have not opportunity to admin a system often), |
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> and she isn't too young to learn new technical things (seventy years old). |
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> All these mean, I'm finding a distro with (besides 'net not hungry') |
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> simplest and minimal maintaining, though without any tuning capabilities |
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> also, which is (one of the main) a reason we use Gentoo. |
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> Andrew |
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Well, coming off MS to Gentoo would have a steep learning curve. I used |
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Mandrake for a little while then switched to Gentoo. To be honest, I |
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installed everything off the CD with Mandrake. If you want to update |
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then you would need the net but if all she is doing is email and such, I |
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wouldn't think updates are needed unless there is a bug that affects |
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what she is doing. |
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For me, the install was easy, updates were not to bad and it was pretty |
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stable. It's a thought. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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