I ran into this problem. Like you I would wait an insane amount of time to
get updates. Then there would always be the updates that did not download.
Not to mention the update may still be out of date. I also wanted to learn
how to compile software and really get into learning my OS. I read a little
article in wired magazine about a site that taught you how to compile a
working Linux OS from the ground up. The project is known as Linux From
Scratch. I recomend that you check it out.
www.linuxfromscratch.org Building the OS is challenging and rewarding. There
is also a huge community behind it to help you with any problems you may
encounter.
Regards,
Aaron Cordova
>From: Michael Havens <bmike1@vei.net>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: source code
>Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:26:00 -0700
>
>
>I think of what I did today; nothing except sit on my computer working on
>gettting my flash card configured as my computer is downloading an upgrade.
>This gets me to thinking: is it possible tto download the source cope and
>compile everything from scratch? Would it be faster ? What initially got me
>to wondering about this is when I did a dist-upgrade. It took 27 hours! I
>went to my parents house in Rimrock, spent the day, spent the night, came
>home and it was still downloading! This time it only took 9 hours. yipee I
>forgot, some of the packages didn't download:( I have to do it again after
>dkq gets done (that's what it is doing now).
>
>Seeing as how my ISP only gives me 159 hours a month (I was told wrong when
>I
>was told 1000 hours) it might be better if I could just do the source code
>and then spend the time compiling it off line.
>
>That reminds me; I was told that that they were soon to release kernel 2.6
>and
>that it is supposed to be like super fast (that is one area I think M$ is
>better at). It might just be the fact that I am only on dial up- but M$
>seemed to operste a little faster (minor inconvenience that does not
>matter)
>when I was running it. Could someone tell me what about my hardware I will
>need to know when I compile it. My linux metor told me that what he does is
>just gets a new distribution with the new kernel included in it but I want
>to
>learn to compile it!
>
>Well, let me know.
>--
><:-)~MIKE~(-:>
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