[LAU] legacy equipment for a user who does not "program"

[Joe Hartley]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:07:45 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 08:46 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > Installing Linux software from source has more or less vanished as
> > part of the work flow for non-technical users, and even for majority
> > of what technical users do.
> 
> Paul is right, but there anyway is a "halfway house", Arch Linux does
> provide the Arch User Repository.

I have used Linux since the Yggdrasil days where you had to compile 
everything from scratch.  Now, even in the AUR compilation is a simple
process requiring no technical knowledge on the part of the user to
build and install packages, save a couple of commands to be entered in
the shell.

I don't miss those days at all.

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