[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 014 snapshot 20071122

[Daniele Maccari]

Good point indeed, but I think the good, old and reliable CD would be 
the best choice for some time to go.

Bye

Dustin Kerfoot wrote:
> If you are ever going to look into other distribution methods, I would
> suggest looking at flash drives. Have a 500~MB drive? Just put the
> core package on it. Have a 2GB drive? Add all the packages you could
> ever need on it. With flash drives you can scale how much you put on
> them, and you can change it easily and infinitely.
>
> The best solution in my view would be to have a program that would
> keep track of packages you have stored on the pen drive, and let you
> update only the ones that have changed. Just format the pen drive, put
> the package manager on it (A version for windows and linux), and run
> it and it would load everything you need to install onto the the pen
> drive.
>
> Kinda like the package manager, except for installation purposes. Not
> only would this help people with bad or infrequent internet
> connections, but would most likely reduce some bandwidth usage, as you
> are not re-downloading stuff you already have. (or you could say that
> if you know something will work, you set the manager to download
> directly from the source site)
>
> Just something to think about.
>