Re: The project

[Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>]

According to Per Lundberg:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > I'd be interested to know what that is (that people prefer to compile
> > from source). I can't see the advantage myself, especially for large packages
> > like X and libc.


	For the huge(er) suites like X11 and it's drivers, most people,
	even the hardcore geeks like myself, are happy with just-the-
	binary distributions.  It's because of the geek factor, I'm
	guessing, that so many FreeBSD users like to compile and install
	from source. 

	Could it be that a large chunk of the Linux users are not
	hackers and wouldn't know C from csh scripts that they are
	happy with drop-in binaries?


> 
	gary

> 
> 


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