Re: [tlug] Classes

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 23 May 2012 11:30, Simon Cozens <simon@example.com> wrote:
> On 20/05/2012 21:01, Josh Glover wrote:
>> Wow, TLUG has changed a lot in the 12 years I've been a member. I can only
>> imagine how the charter members feel...
>
> Linux has changed a lot in the past twelve years, too. Now you don't actually
> *have* to compile everything from scratch any more.

Eh? Since when did you "have" to do that? In the early
days, which was more than 12 years ago, we were using
precompiled distros. I never encountered complete
compilations until I went to a TLUG talk on Gentoo in
2002. It seemed very envelope-pushing.

Jim

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