[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2007/04/12 Thu PM 12:19:43 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

>On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:36:05PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Nothing wrong with packaged solutions, I use them all the time, but first 
I
>> learned to do it myself.
>
>I just want to comment on something that happened while you were
>writing this. I decided to install a package that was described in the
>torrent thread. I have an old system. It still thinks it's RedHat 7.2,
>but almost everything except /etc/redhat.version has been upgraded. So I
>need to install packages from the source code. No big thing, I've been 
>doing it on computers since the late 1960's, on Unix since 1990 and Linux
>since 1995. 
>
>I just wish that if you understand enough about the requirments for a 
>program to write a configure script, you actually included those 
requirements
>in the list of requirements on the web page. That way I did not have to
>find it out by runing configure and finding it out the hard way (running
>configure, adding something, tweaking a config parameter, running configure
>again until either you give up or succeed).

You should talk to ESR - an issue like this pushed him over to UBUNTU over 
Fedora... (I think he should have tried a test system first, rather then 
cripple his production machine with an untested (by him, and maybe the 
developer/packager) upgrade...

Lionel