Chapter 1
Introduction
About the Author
As Dwarf, the author began traveling the Information Super highway in the
early 1990's. Several years later he discovered Linux, when someone gave him
a copy of the first edition of The Linux Journal. He purchased a CD from
one of the adds in that magazine, and after only 3 or 4 tries, was successful
installing Slackware on a PC that had previously only run DOS. He was almost
immediately disappointed because many of the source packages that he was
able to download off the net would not build because some library, or utility,
appeared to be missing from the system. Being barely able to manage make
provided none of the skills needed to resolve the problem. As Dwarf later
discovered, the reason for these failures came from the nonstandard locations
for libraries and utilities in a Slackware system. With that knowledge it is
a pretty simple matter to edit the make file so the libraries can be success 
fully found. Lack of this knowledge forced Dwarf to try another distribution.
Software Landing Systems (SLS) was installed next, and it did a much better
job of supplying everything necessary to build packages directly off the net.
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