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 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 the runtime image
> > + portage beforehand onto a thumb drive
> > or DVD's the Gentoo install isn't even
> > all that net hungry.
> >
> > You might find that Damn Small Linux is,
> > well, damn small and doesn't take that
> > much bandwidth to download.
> >
> > --
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>
> you can use ArchLinux it's also good:)

except when it replaces a package with a higher version one without any kind 
of information to distinguish them (vmlinuz? but which one?)


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