Re: Experience the New Windows

[Indraneel Majumdar <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's why there are RPM, deb, Slackware tgz, SLP, SRPM (to rebuild
packages) etc. Free or not, consider open source a bonus. An user has the
choice to remain ignorant of the code and use GNoRPM/YaST/... or be a
power user and as they say "use the force, read the source". If
many-thousands+ binary packages are not enough for the normal user s/he
can always request the author of a specific package to send a compiled
version if possible.

\Indraneel

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Diwakar Ranganathan wrote:

> sure, we cant expect a sourcecode to compile itself.
> but do you expect an ordinary user to compile a
> program? should he learn c/c++, perl, python, tcl/tk

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