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 1KjkfY-0005Z4-1I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:01:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82877E0466; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f19.google.com (mail-gx0-f19.google.com [209.85.217.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2EAE0466 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk12 with SMTP id 12so10224656gxk.10 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:01:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A2xI31DUxhVQZdmPNtx2LI/bw1vNVgKkp+ecuqFUOmo=; b=CM31/F7T8WAzXv/XQJb7s6DFVow9UP0BcMLYA0CEWJNeOx4ZA7BI5CfwDOi+iFRQrS A0XW6M6XGGJMfpDQ33IRqdniwDOMdyz7oG4bUKqSZUJjaD5qA9oJFGocgVoPdruTby/g yXYlUQ1tJA+NjJAozNMZYXLtsjITsqgCS4Mnk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gy01dt3LxULEGoHb/R9BM8fM912rKIYvIPf9JeKG8RnDzi3o7g1I2tdyuHCTLxLeC4 XEGlKqo8IJ6IT7jfQAVp/rMgOm83Bf7s77u1fQ7GeZ+FT0282yo9fVSqEiyhQ9yFxeew qGTe+oCsizq4CSVrdiea2wslNHA+2PnhwBQPg= Received: by 10.150.156.20 with SMTP id d20mr4954144ybe.83.1222563709428; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?216.78.70.71? (host-216-78-70-71.jan.bellsouth.net [216.78.70.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm411574ywl.4.2008.09.27.18.01.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48DED778.60307@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:01:44 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080721 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux References: <200809261738.37004@goldspace.net> <200809271553.03359@goldspace.net> <48DE5B0E.30509@gmail.com> <200809280230.27550@goldspace.net> In-Reply-To: <200809280230.27550@goldspace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 448bb1e7-701c-44e9-85a0-981816e8e166 X-Archives-Hash: d4072a3d35fdefd73b88c5db86f43a21 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > ======= 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 > > > Well, coming off MS to Gentoo would have a steep learning curve. I used Mandrake for a little while then switched to Gentoo. To be honest, I installed everything off the CD with Mandrake. If you want to update then you would need the net but if all she is doing is email and such, I wouldn't think updates are needed unless there is a bug that affects what she is doing. For me, the install was easy, updates were not to bad and it was pretty stable. It's a thought. Dale :-) :-)