--- Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > Why not try out Fedora instead? Its a great > package. > > You would find more people inclined to > follow your suggestions > if you did not attack other free software in order > to promote your > favourites.
I don't think he's trying to attack "other" Free Software. I guess he has been a avid Fedora / Redhat user and has managed to do quite a lot in it. I began with RH9 and never cared to upgrade because, I thought it would mess up the existing windows setup :( > > As Roshan experienced, > > one must download them from the right repos which > isn't the case with > > Debian, Fedora, Slackware, Mandriva or the likes. > > Debian standard also does not come with gcc > either. It is, > again, an optional package. I guess, this is the case with most distros that one has to get it from the repos or do a sort-of custom install (selecting packages). For RH9, I had to pop in the CDs (2 / 3) to install GCC (and a bunch of other compilers for languages I hadn't heard about). -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC- http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc ubunturos @ freenode Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Click here: http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
