zlacker

You mean that 11 month period between September 1991 when Linux was first released and August 1992 when the SLS distro was released?

>>IshKeb+(OP)
Open source did not begin with Linux, and the existence of Linux distros did not mean that everything a user wanted had binary packages available.

>>IshKeb+(OP)
No. Most open-source packages that weren't universal enough to warrant a package often just gave you a c program with the Autotools scripts to build it.

These scripts may or may not have worked for you. The BSD user ports collection was at least curated so that these scripts all worked.

>>yjftsj+jo
Ah I misread - thought he said Linux software.

>>IshKeb+bn1
Fair enough