Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-29 Thread forgottenwizard
On 17:38 Fri 26 Sep, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install > Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but > the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dialup > connection (33600) only.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-27 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Dale wrote: === Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === ... I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. My desktop - KDE. :) The secr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-27 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Saturday 27 September 2008, Dale wrote: === > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === > > ... > > > >> I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. > >> My desktop - KDE. :) > >> > >> The secret is: emer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-27 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === ... 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-27 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === ... > > 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 :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-27 Thread Anton Kochnev
В сообщении от Friday 26 September 2008 22:38:36 Andrew Gaydenko написал(а): > No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install > Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but > the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dial

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Saturday 27 September 2008, jaeyoung lee wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.If you can > > > >> do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check > >> should cover yo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread jaeyoung lee
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.If you can >> do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check >> should cover you for the updates >> >> I would assume that in most case

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 26 September 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install > Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but > the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dialup > connection (33600) o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Steven Lembark
Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.If you can do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check should cover you for the updates I would assume that in most cases source tarballs will be smaller than binaries to download too :) If you can download

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install > Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but > the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dialup > connection (33600) only. As a result, I need t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Philip Webb
080926 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > I want to install Linux to my friend's PC. > I can download installation CD iso (or two), but the main problem is > that PC during next few months will have dialup connection (33600) only. Mandriva is what I used before Gentoo (2000-3) & it seems to remain the best

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Erik Hahn
I think Suse would be suitable. AFAIK they have a updates-only policy (you might even be able to choose only to use security updates but I'm not sure - I used it only a short time) and use delta packages. -Erik -- hackerkey://v4sw5hw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7LwXm4l7Gi2e2t4b7Ken4/7a16s0r1p-5.62/-6.5

[gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux

2008-09-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dialup connection (33600) only. As a result, I need to choose Linux with minimal ne