On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:19:03PM +0000, Adam Stiles wrote: > Good on you for installing from source; but I will warn you in advance, it is > not as easy as installing "click and go" spyware-infested applications under > Windows! OTOH, there is something undefinable yet deeply satisfying about > knowing you built it all yourself from source code ..... just like the way > vegetables from a supermarket never taste as good as the ones you grew on > your own allotment, or other people's babies are never as pretty as yours.
Personally I don't consider it good, I consider it silly. :) [snip] > I don't doubt that somebody will have created a boot CD with a working build > environment that can be used for bootstrapping Debian from sources. But you will get the same result building the source packages yourself. If you don't it is a serious bug. So really what would be the point (given I don't believe there is a point to any source based distribution). If you want a source distribution, try looking at the original debian releases (1.x releases). We don't want to go back to that kind of install again. :) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
