On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 23:59 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > Back in the day when I was on dialup, I used > > www.cheapbytes.com; their service was prompt and their quality was > > excellent. > > So did I, so did we all. > But that was a long time ago. > Surely now everyone is on broadband > with Terabyte disks that can hold 20 different OS's? > > Just to repeat my original comment. > How can anyone write a 20-page document on Hurd > without ever saying, "Download a working version from here"? ---- I suspect there is a reason that few are interested in running Hurd ---- > > Does anyone actually compile anything today? > Apart from developers, of course. ---- you can install Gentoo and compile/emerge to your heart's content unless you are actually auditing the source code before you compile, I'm not sure that there's much of difference between installing pre-compiled binaries and compiling everything you install except for the time, disk space and energy to do it. ---- > I know FreeBSD-ers specialize in compiling everything every day, > but they are strange people. ---- yeah, unlike the ultra-normal Linux people who endlessly debate licensing Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
