From: michaelw@desaster.hanse.de (Michael Will) Subject: Re: comp.os.linux.binaries Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 10:53:44 GMT
marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
>>Michael Will (michaelw@desaster.hanse.de) wrote:
>>: Hello,
>>:
>>: What about comp.os.linux.binaries for those of us who are so lucky to have a
>>: highspeedmodem and would not mind the traffic there?
>>Well just have to tell the news admin here, so he can nuke it as
>>a waste of disk space if it turns up here.
>>:-)
>>There isn't really much point for a site which gets its news via NNTP
>>over the Internet.
> personally, I prefer to compile my own stuff, unless I'm in a
>real jam...most of the stuff I received from the SLS distribution has
>been recompiled. I'd like to see a comp.os.linux.sources instead tht
>would contain linux-specific programs, or just the patches for the major
>packages.
agreed.
Cheers, Michael Will
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