Re: Distribution for 'techies'

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From: Mark Baker
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <5gi7rg$48h$1@newsserver.dircon.co.uk>,
	gps@trix.dircon.co.uk (Graham Swallow) writes:

> 	If you want a boot-strap distribution, that requires
> 	you to build things from "scratch", then you are a
> 	very brave person. You will soon realise what an
> 	enormous amount of work it is to put a distribution
> 	together. Even then, you will probably be taking large
> 	pre-assembed components (eg X11) and INSTALLING them.

Why? X11 is a very easy thing to configure and compile. I wouldn't want
to put a distribution together myself, and would certainly shy away from
writing all the boot scripts etc, but I compiled my X from source.

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From: mnb20@cam.ac.uk (Mark Baker)
Subject: Re: Distribution for 'techies'
Date: 1997/03/17
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