From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:27:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807111217m66d6cf4el777c197c107ce034@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080713225327.GC1076@muc.de> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216031331 10185 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2008 10:28:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, drobinow@gmail.com To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 14 12:29:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KILJK-0000Ma-3h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:29:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KILIR-0007na-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KILII-0007lS-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KILIG-0007jq-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57627 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KILIG-0007jk-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:28:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38933) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KILIF-0007NZ-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KILHh-00075W-JY; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:27:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <20080713225327.GC1076@muc.de> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:53:27 +0000) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100671 Archived-At: > I recently reinstalled gNewSense and the installation took me > about 5 minutes, excluding the time it takes to copy data from a > CD-ROM to a HDD. But I know that it does take over a full day to > install Windows XP, it is something I sadly do once every other > week. :-) OK, but clearly since you do it every other week, the process takes much less than 20 days. It is done in parallel. I challenge you to write a recipe, suitable for a newbie without an internet connection, how to get a GNU/Linux system connected to the internet, on the assumption that any magic spells supplied by the distribution have failed. Point out where he can find the necessary info, and how he could discover that that is where he has to look. http://www.gnewsense.org/