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 1Kxkg9-0001nS-0d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:52:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F1D5E007A; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4335CE007A for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so30028ywm.46 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:52:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=b+sGJjD2Vp3W9vC668Rb2MhivtSlUxsmFh01eGwoXZo=; b=hqdLdieNvCklyyrAj0unjzRqO05gFyD3idXSWshGXdkunPtUHfMGrXJp4Z5IujzUjI HlauBEEpxjRKd2JE/J7+khNLebLE5nfblto8oJGuR/KGzhYYXSY/0z9PdR4HH9Y+DEHY BazhaQHeRSKguqPbMgMy+BL5vqdzRYeReLsTQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=e6xUfmkOPQ0ny9zNM1MAc8quChpu5RTdAMS87GjYRbwyZUdprjl5WUHe+4fU4ZQopS Y502nDxOF6pQ4pUrmsnir7qEGdQg7aOHbCXr7tXpyfh5OeW6U60R2AnFwZ61/BXYAfDu B6pB9kM4pRl6irRPvJhlaNvlG+SKX8ryyl6Yw= Received: by 10.90.91.2 with SMTP id o2mr760299agb.121.1225900335903; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.81.1 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:52:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811050752h5b77a00bx5557380001e8d4a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:52:15 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection In-Reply-To: <79e3aefb0811042224h6696aecdy64bcb930962cf1d5@mail.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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <79e3aefb0811042224h6696aecdy64bcb930962cf1d5@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2c334b5e18fdd258 X-Archives-Salt: 5f66bd37-09c6-4882-92a0-0661c2af921d X-Archives-Hash: 9996155c1260e631ca23f829a4c24468 On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal > wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system >> successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a >> limited number of packages and... I do not have an internet connection at >> home since its very expensive for us. >> >> Is their any possible way that i can get a Software collection downloaded >> for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is combined with >> Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE fan but since I >> have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing difficulties. What do you mean "xfce combined with Gnome" ? > > As a side note: for a PC running on low specs I would recommend using > a window manager like WindowMaker or IceWM. Both of them are very > lightweight. Xfce is light enough. I'm using it right now, and I like it very much. It is very lightweight, occupies negligible RAM, and also occupies little disk space: equery size xfce-base/ * size of xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-4.4.2 Total files : 44 Total size : 285.76 KiB * size of xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.4.2 Total files : 68 Total size : 527.11 KiB * size of xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.4.2 Total files : 114 Total size : 1287.49 KiB * size of xfce-base/thunar-0.9.0-r2 Total files : 530 Total size : 9990.27 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-mcs-manager-4.4.2 Total files : 199 Total size : 601.28 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.2-r1 Total files : 228 Total size : 1494.46 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.4.2-r1 Total files : 87 Total size : 483.62 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.2 Total files : 4 Total size : 5.57 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4.2 Total files : 290 Total size : 1638.96 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.2 Total files : 259 Total size : 2215.87 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.4.2-r2 Total files : 254 Total size : 4127.12 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfwm4-4.4.2 Total files : 1435 Total size : 3048.79 KiB equery size xfce-extra/ [ Searching for packages matching xfce-extra/... ] * size of xfce-extra/exo-0.3.4 Total files : 324 Total size : 3297.70 KiB * size of xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.4.2 Total files : 188 Total size : 624.86 KiB And look at how little memory it consumes: $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 884 78 806 0 6 43 -/+ buffers/cache: 28 855 Swap: 972 0 972 This is from a just-booted system, with a gkrellm open, some daemons, and an aterm (used to run the command 'free'). So only 28 MB used, total (including Xfce plus everything else) (although I imagine the is some kernel memory that does not go in this figure; I'm not an OS expert). There is no need to go the path of Fluxbox; Xfce delivers all the speed and featherweight you need, while being very ease to use, vastly configurable, feature-rich, and good-looking. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds