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