[Lancaster] Linux with dialup?

[mp]

I have never used it, but:
http://www.debianadmin.com/setting-up-dial-up-connection-in-ubuntu.html


Ken Walton wrote:
> 2009/1/27 llug at lodestar.icom43.net <llug at lodestar.icom43.net>
> 
>> I would suggest Damn Small Linux, but I couldn't swear as to the modem
>> support - I'll try and check that. DSL is usually thought of as a
>> lightweight distro like Puppy, but when it's installed to disk it's Debian
>> - and it uses Knoppix hardware detection :-)
>>
> 
> It's an idea, but the trouble with it is that it's Damn Small. Which means
> that most of the packages he's likely to want for a decent modern desktop
> aren't included.  Installing OpenOffice.org, for instance, over a dial-up
> connection, would take hours.
> 
> What he really wants is something that has everything he needs on the disk,
> so that the less installing of stuff via the internet  he has to do, the
> better.
> 
> 
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