From: Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:03:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DD4E0A.9080102@wrkhors.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DCFC30.7040805@anferny.me.uk>
> Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.....If you can
> do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check
> should cover you for the updates....
>
> I would assume that in most cases source tarballs will be smaller than
> binaries to download too :)
If you can download the runtime image
+ portage beforehand onto a thumb drive
or DVD's the Gentoo install isn't even
all that net hungry.
You might find that Damn Small Linux is,
well, damn small and doesn't take that
much bandwidth to download.
--
Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St.
Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421
lembark@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-26 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-26 13:38 [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux Andrew Gaydenko
2008-09-26 15:02 ` Erik Hahn
2008-09-26 15:09 ` Philip Webb
2008-09-26 15:13 ` Anthony Metcalf
2008-09-26 21:03 ` Steven Lembark [this message]
2008-09-27 3:41 ` jaeyoung lee
2008-09-27 8:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-09-26 21:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-09-27 10:18 ` Anton Kochnev
2008-09-27 11:53 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-09-27 16:10 ` Dale
2008-09-27 22:30 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-09-28 1:01 ` Dale
2008-09-29 20:33 ` forgottenwizard
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