> Even with a local root, importing stuff over (say) wifi can be painful.
perhaps there's something about your setup that's different than mine. even mounting root over a wireless connection is not a problem. my desktop machine is connected a shared (with a dozen other computers) wireless bridge. the ping time of 3-4ms is not noticable unless one starts compiling the kernel locally. but cpu solves that problem quite nicely. datakit terminals had similar latency and worse bandwidth. at home, i have a 40ms ping time (surely your wireless connection is faster) to work servers. i sometimes notice just a slight delay saving files over an encrypted, imported connection. but since i compile over a cpu session, it's just not an issue. - erik
