On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:23:16AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > 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.
56k's no big deal for network installs. You just don't install cruft that you don't need. (and you then get pissed off at Debian's constant minor upgrades of glibc which involve a complete download) Ben.
