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Re: [LUG] something to do with someone explaining how to compile,but why?



It's all well and good, Banging on about, Syntax - Compiling Beta's and generally hissing and spitting command line arguments out. But many of the newer users of Linux are, have and will be coming from a Windows background. It is important to encourage them gently to look for themselves and to try to figure things out and ask further questions.. Installing packages makes things much simpler, using a graphical package manager lends itself far easier to an MS migrant then saying "Wake Up and see the light you need to scouer sourceforge get a tarball... Tar xvzf..../.conf... ./mak" and Blah Blah. Most people with will just say "Oh F~** It where's that Windows XP Disc.

Rick

Bill Noyce wrote:

Wake Up - And see the light....

Have you not yet tried searching for a specialist application, be it the
latest CD burner with MultiSession support. A Multi track record.
Multiple Video Format Viewer. Try it think of some crazy app and someone
on freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net will have the code already in
beta/stable stages. Now try asking them if they have rpm's for redhat
12.

Come on.

Time to visit LDP!


On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 17:29, Kai Hendry wrote:


Hellooooooooo!! We are in the 21st century.

There is no need to compile anything in a linux distribution if you are a
user!

Thats what packages are there for.

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