RE: [TCLUG:1497] DEC3000 300L

[Christopher Reid Palmer <jaymz@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Brad DeJong wrote:

> But if you recompile, then they are just plain old GNU apps and not   
> Linux!  :^)

They were GNU apps in the first place. :P

> More importantly, that means that you have to either compile egcs/gcc on   
> DU, find a site to download the binaries, or pay $$$ for a Digital   
> compiler.  Neither of the first two is that difficult, but still harder   
> than installing Red Hat.

The second would be nearly impossible.

> The real pain-in-the-neck comes when new versions are released and instead 
> of just updating the RPM, you have to make source changes and compile 
> (again).

A lot of people prefer to do it this way anyway.

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