On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:39:41 +1200 Simon Hansman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, yeah far enough. On a slower computer Gentoo's probably not the best > option (likewise Gentoo may not be the best option on a dialup > connection)...But when you upgrade or buy a new one, you'll be able to run > Gentoo :). > > Cheers > Simon Re dialup, neither is any other distro any good if you rely solely on dialup to install and maintain your distro. People on dialup generally beg/steal/borrow a CD to install. Anyone who wants to do the same with gentoo can do so. Its simply a matter of finding someone with an up to date portage tree and dumping /usr/portage on a cd, then dumping the contents of the cd onto the 56kuser's hard drive. Bang, up to date emerge scripts and source code. I have done this for several people and it saves heaps of time. Then all you have to fear is an update to xfree or kde, which will take a while to download. But it will for binary packages too. Anyway, 56k with gentoo is no nore restrictive than any other distro which gets updated frequently - and face it who wants old versions when updates are released. I see binary distro users fluffing about looking for their distro's binaries for kde-latest when I have done emerge -u world and been running it for days or weeks.
