[GRLUG] Pentium 4 and Gentoo Linux?

Matt Behrens matt at zigg.com
Thu Jun 20 10:39:44 EDT 2013


On Jun 20, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:

> <QUOTE>
> Yet, binary distros are riddled with bugs, and are much more annoying to
> fix given the the cumbersome edit/build package/install package cycle.
> </QUOTE>
> 
> Heh, because compiling code magically makes the bugs go away.  Wow, I
> never knew that....

That's not what the quoted person was saying, but he's really not got much of a point anyway.  Modern packaging systems (particularly dpkg) make fixing bugs super-easy.  It does take a little reading up on them to get your desired results, though.

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