On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:14, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Nick Rout wrote: > > > History: Chris Sawtell offered to talk on gentoo at the next meeting, > > > > [...] > > > > > demo the installation of a (small) app (small as it has to download @56k > > > and compile while everyone is watching) > > > > This is the one I like :-) May I suggest OpenOffice ? :-D > Sure, I'll make sure I have the downloaded archive available on a cd or > something so we can pretend the d/l is happening, while in fact the file is > coming out of the local archive of downloaded files.
I was just joking :-D while trying to make a point. Downloading may not be the problem, OTOH ... compiling ... 600MB and counting. That's about 6x the full kernel tree and is c++ not c. I wander how long does it take ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
