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

[Bill Wilson <bill@xxxxxxxx>]

Oh Rick !!!

Let me introduce you to the pleasures of cpio rather than tame tar.
This one is just for you for christmas  cpio -itcvudB < /dev/rStp0

Bill



Rick Timmis wrote:

> 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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