Re: Why compiling.
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 21:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 17:03 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> > [snip] i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian.
>
> Some kernels with special patches are not always available for Debian.
> Sometimes e.g. a kernel-rt is available, but sometimes it isn't. If e.g.
> a kernel-rt should be available by a repository, I still might optimize
> to e.g. the CPU I'm using.
>
> > [snip]
> > secondly i have read that people are compiling Squid SAMBA and all
> > the other packages but why. i am using KVM, squid samba etc for
> > almost more then 1 year and all the servers are providing me what ever
> > i asled all the services are very comprehensive and could be fit in
> > any environment then why compiling?
>
> I compile software myself for at least three reasons.
> 1. In the past I often was a tester for e.g. Qtractor and I plan to do
> it in the future again. It also is needed, if you wish to do
> translations. Until now I never finished a translation.
> 2. Some software is missing functionality that works good enough for my
> needs and sometimes software from git does provide the quality I need.
> 3. No distro can fit to everybody needs, you might need to get rid of
> dependencies that make Linux unable to be used with e.g. professional
> audio software.
^^^^^^^^^ hardware ;)
>
> Some people perhaps wish to learn/play. Since self-responsibility is
> wanted, this could be a good way to learn more about Linux, it also
> could break an install, but even this could help to learn more about
> Linux.
> Others maybe are hunting for latest versions only, this IMO is idiotic.
> Sometimes I would be able to compile very old versions, because I prefer
> those versions, this unfortunately isn't that easy to do.
> I'm not programming for Linux. I did program older computers, however,
> many people help programming, other people take care that FLOSS isn't
> malicious, they might need to compile with special flags set, dunno, but
> there are tons of reasons to compile FLOSS software ourself.
>
> - Ralf
>
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