On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:53, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Sorry to be a bit of a failure over the orgainising of talk subjects, > > Don't stress yourself. The year's been going fine, and there are > currently more offers on the table than there are months left. > > I am not sure whether compiling tar files is a good topic for > demonstration. There's nothing to see. A thread on the list, or a good > writeup on the wiki, filled in with more list input, would be adequate. > How to run rpm & Co is more basic system administration, covered by > reading $DISTRO's howto-101.
Yes, all that's true, and while we both know all about it, it would appear that there are folks on the list who don't, because the subject resulted in a thread 13 posts long and a couple of private e-mails. So I thought it might be quite a good idea. Anyway, have you got a better idea for the very next Tuesday? -- CS