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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

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A distro for a PC with no net connection.

One friend of mine likes to try some GNU/Linux distro but he don't have an internet connection connection at home, i installed archlinux and all the packages that i had in pacman cache but arch is tricky to run without internet, i'm thinking to put opensuse cause it has a dvd full of apps but i'd like to hear your suggestion first.

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lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

Perhaps Frugalware?

allbluedream

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

Debian? You can download all the DVDs, and they don't update often.

rson451

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Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

i second debian.  i'm very biased though, suse gives me nightmares. bright blue and bright green nightmares.

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lilsirecho

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

Faunos with 600 pkgs and boot from USB flash drive should give a good run at no internet....

With USB flash, portable capability to install more from another computer.

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

slackware

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From: Castalia

Registered: 2007-02-02

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

Debian.

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

slackware

I agree.
All excellent suggestions. Basically, I would guide you toward the distros that come on a DVD as others have suggested already, simply because of the quantity of software provided off the bat.

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lilsirecho

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

Faunos has a DVD.

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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

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Re: A distro for a PC with no net connection.

Thanks for the suggestions.
I think that faunos dvd would be the best option, cause its based on archlinux and will be simple to add new packages by need.
I would also consider suse, cause its the distro of choice for not connected machines. The debian dvd's are just too big for the need, and i haven't used something debian based for 1 year now. I would also consider fedora 9 and some ubuntu 8.04 DVD spinoff

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