From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KjiKy-0003VV-DQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:32:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18352E0412; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from anli.goldspace.net (anli.goldspace.net [80.246.67.229]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7336E0412 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:32:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anli.goldspace.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1135A792 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:30:27 +0400 (MSD) From: Andrew Gaydenko To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:30:27 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200809261738.37004@goldspace.net> <200809271553.03359@goldspace.net> <48DE5B0E.30509@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48DE5B0E.30509@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809280230.27550@goldspace.net> X-Archives-Salt: 236a77b8-3f92-43c0-9c9a-d061c456941d X-Archives-Hash: 900dc483bf90ecfe807c242067992c9c ======= On Saturday 27 September 2008, Dale wrote: ======= > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > ======= On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: ======= > > ... > > > >> I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. > >> My desktop - KDE. :) > >> > >> The secret is: emerge-delta-webrsync for updating portages and deltup > >> for sources. > > > > That user isn't Gentoo-compatible :-) > > I have dial-up here too and I just sync and download once a week or so. > What's all that delta stuff anyway? > > Dale > > :-) :-) Saying Gentoo-incompatible I mean that user will be migrated from m$win (I force this migration, but have not opportunity to admin a system often), and she isn't too young to learn new technical things (seventy years old). All these mean, I'm finding a distro with (besides 'net not hungry') simplest and minimal maintaining, though without any tuning capabilities also, which is (one of the main) a reason we use Gentoo. Andrew