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		fragmede on July 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) we had the same conversation when Gmail came out. a true test for a progammer is to see what they can do on a computer without the Internet.

anthk on July 29, 2024 [–]

- Debian/Devuan/Gnuinos users with offline DVD's ISOs mirrored under an USB drive: easy mode. Most of the docs are already there, just mount the ISO's as a loopback device and run apt-cdrom add against the mount points.

- Windows user: hell.

Ubuntu/Arch/any distro without full ofline mirrors: hell too.

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