can PLD be my favourite distro?

Tue Dec 5 19:56:15 CET 2006

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:56:44PM +0530, arnuld wrote:
> > If you like playing with system configuration manually, digging into details,
> > sometimes building stuff yourself from PLD cvs, providing fixes for things
> > you have found then PLD is for you.
> 
> OK then, fro PLD 2.0-RC1 i have found 11 CDs. do i need all. i have
> aslow broadband connection & it downloads 1 CD per night. i just want
> to have GNOME, GCC, Firefox, Emacs, xterm running, everything else i
> can download later in free time.
simplest rule to install pld is - never use cd's ;)

download rescuecd, boot from it and.. install pld from network.
download ~50mb packages is enought for install "base" pld.

next, when you have "base" pld already installed it's easy to install
additional packages, X, firefox, gnome by poldek.

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