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Reasons against a switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu 9.10

Some weeks ago I switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu 9.10. Entirely. Without a safety net. It was a big step for me. All-in-all I’m happy to have made Ubuntu my main system. However, there are some things that bother me here and there.

How to compile Haskell’s network library on Windows

The normal way to recompile a Haskell library would be to: download the Cabal source package e.g. from HackageDB unpack it in a directory locate the directory in the console use “cabal install -reinstall” and watch the compiling process For the network-2.2.1.3 package I couldn’t use this approach because I always got the message that [...]