On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, "Ariane" <noen@online.no> wrote:

> Hi
> I'm interested in Gentoo because of its updating system (don't remember its
> name...) but I wonder if I can use it on a plain old 56k modem connexion ?
> Is it just impossible or only very looooooong ?
> Thanks for any advice about that !

I do it, but it can indeed be very slow. I often use --fetchonly to
make sure I can get all the files before I start compiling.

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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas