β² 443 βΌ "Are they still alive?" (feddit.org) submitted 8 months ago by mech@feddit.org to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) I'm partial to installing vanilla, headless Debian and then frankensteining everything together myself from there. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago Nothing but the basics that way! The hardest core version I saw someone do that was long ago. My best friend and I were using OpenBSD back in early 2000's. He installed a minimal install. From there he pulled the source tree makefiles. Then he started running make on Mozilla (pre firefox days). He just kept building, patching, fixing, and hammering away. Eventually he built the whole GUI environment, dependencies, and Mozilla which took that computer months to complete it all. Today, he's the lead engineer for a massive tech company. permalink fedilink source parent [β] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago Same. There's a lot of options in open source software, and so I try different applications until I figure out which I like best. Then apt sorts out how to make it all work. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago Nothing but the basics that way! The hardest core version I saw someone do that was long ago. My best friend and I were using OpenBSD back in early 2000's. He installed a minimal install. From there he pulled the source tree makefiles. Then he started running make on Mozilla (pre firefox days). He just kept building, patching, fixing, and hammering away. Eventually he built the whole GUI environment, dependencies, and Mozilla which took that computer months to complete it all. Today, he's the lead engineer for a massive tech company. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago Same. There's a lot of options in open source software, and so I try different applications until I figure out which I like best. Then apt sorts out how to make it all work. permalink fedilink source parent
