Re: [tlug] Classes

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 05/23/2012 11:39 AM, Jim Breen wrote:
> 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.

I think the big difference is that there are now ways to easily, 
reliably compile things into a distribution.  Most binary only 
distribution still can't do this.

Edward