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- From: japhet@romulus.rutgers.edu (APJ)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Newbie Questions:
- Message-ID: <Nov.18.12.32.40.1992.9664@romulus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:32:41 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- Hello! :) I have a few questions I can't seem to find answers to. I was
- wondering if you all could help me.
-
- (a) Where can I find a compiled version of .95-pl5? I'm running pl-1 and,
- well, would like to upgrade, even though I just installed it last night. I
- don't however wanna fiddle with souce code, as it's a pain in the butt *grin*
- and (b) more important, I don't have a compiler installed yet.
-
- (b) What version of GCC should I get, and from where? There's so many just
- floating around, I'm clueless (although this is my usual state, mostly).
-
- (c) What do you reccomend by way of utilities, tools, and binaries in
- general (including games ;). I would like to get Moria, I have it for DOS,
- would like to compare.
-
- (d) Where does one untar these things? And where does one place them? I'm
- fairly new to *nix's from the setup end, and well, the file structure con-
- founds me. I really don't know what to put where. And what dirs are executable
- dirs. (I know all bins are, but is that it?).
-
- I think that is it. Any help at all with these would be vastly appreciated.
- On the whole, Linux looks very nice, and seems to have very good support!
- I wish it and everyone associated well... just HELP! ;) All I'm running
- right now is the rootdisk, and booting off floppy as trying to install
- lilo without a clue seems foolhardy. Thanks again!
- Rob
-