mick crane wrote: > On 2018-10-07 20:04, songbird wrote: > >> i used to run on dialup and hated how long it took >> for some things to download. the package debdelta >> did help some at that time, but i have no idea if the >> service is even still there let alone functional. > > I installed Gentoo once over dialup > It took two weeks.
i used to take the USB stick to the library to download big packages when needing updates. glad i haven't had to do that in a while, but i still have a relatively slow connection (about 10M/minute) compared to many, but it's much better than dialup. songbird
