Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Simple case - consider a disconnected machine, that you use sneakernet > to get files to - I've had a few in the past where the hardware was new > enough that networking was broken or not supported yet, and I had to try > a few patches and snapshots before actually getting it to work.
I don't see much of an effective difference here. Both ways you've gotta burn files to disk and copy 'em over. > Another case might be a machine where HTTP/FTP access is allowed out via > a filter proxy, but not anything else (I've had a few cases like this in > doing Gentoo consulting). git clone http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git Thanks, Donnie
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