On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 08:11, Peter Cornelius wrote:
> 
> I obviously sent this to the wrong address on Sunday as I didn't see it
> distributed. So I'll try again.
> 
> Barry wrote:
> >It would be nice to have some feedback from the installers (and
> >installees) on the success or otherwise of the efforts.
> 
> I'll give you one as the Irish lad who helped me is not of CLUG and 'just
> dropped in to see if he could help'! 
> He did, with yours truely, who had previously achieved only a defective
> install of Man 7.2, and a successful 8.2 install was achieved. (Plus some
> good pointers as to what the hell to do with it!)
> I saw this Irish lad (who is job hunting so that he can get a Resident's
> Permit) still at it with another when I left at 4:30.
> 

That is the huge thing about the Linux (ummm "community" I hate that
word sometimes) way of doing things. Because of the way that Linux was
created the whole mindset of Linux tends to be cooperative.
(I'm going to hug some trees now ;-)




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