Subj : Re: Great!
To   : Richard Falken
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Mon Jan 04 2021 10:55:26

Hello Richard!

03 Jan 21 18:28, Richard Falken wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 RF> I am aware of Sabayon and Funtoo, but Mocaccino was under my radar.

It's quite new and not yet production-ready.

 RF> My main concern with source based distributions is running them in 
 RF> adverse
 RF> conditions - places with no Internet, bad Internet, or limited data 
 RF> plans.
 RF> Specially if you have fleets of machines in office. Imagine if you 
 RF> have an
 RF> office with 20 computers and a data plan that tops at 5 GB for all of 
 RF> them.

Sabayon and Mocaccino come with binary packages. But the issue is more or less the same: you need to get data (either source or binary) to your hosts. If your connection is limited, you'll have to be creative... set up a local repo mirror and fill it via network only if required once for all machines, or even use media to get the data in.

 RF> Hint: this is not a theoretical scenario.

Sure, although this is not the scenario I usually face. The place I work at with the worst connection still has a 150MBit radio link.

 RF> You can use build hosts in and out of premises, but setting these 
 RF> things up
 RF> can be such a burden :-( Specially if your computer fleet is not 
 RF> homogeneous.

Yes, if you really rely on your own source builds. But as I said, Sabayon and Mocaccino provide precompiled binaries as almost any other distribution.

 RF> Most Linux distributions are not designed for offline use, which can 
 RF> be really
 RF> troublesome.

Always depends on the circumstances, how many bandwidth, storage, cpu power, manpower etc. you have available. Setting up a repo mirror should not be too difficult (at least not for Gentoo and derivatives).


Regards,
Gerrit

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