Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) has a huge collection of binaries which can be installed very easily if your system is properly set up: "apt-get install netscape" will get you Netscape Communicator 4.77 for example. It will download from sites like http://ftp.debian.org, security.debian.org and lots of others (which you specify in the file /etc/apt/sources.list).
Why use any other distribution? On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil wrote : >Hello Linux users, > > I think, for GNU/Linux to be really getting on to the >Desktop/Home, the software installtion/addition should be made >more simple. For that, it should go the binary way, which you not only don't have to compile/configure but are also less in size. Most software have a source package for users to download but only few have a binary option. Actually, there are much more users than there are developers and so the first option for a download (for even Open Source / Free Software) should be a binary package and could/should have a source download option, which developers can use. > > I downloaded Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 >and was delighted to find that they had provided the binaries inside the .tar.gz package, which i just uncompressed to a folder and could start it right away. >(These two are great even before the 1.0 version! Hope they >become still better in version 1.0) > > Similarly, I downloaded HTTrack latest version source packages >and and is still battling with them to get them to work. I'am positive that even Balakrishnan Sir must have gone through atleast one source package which would have shown error messages and not installed. But the difference is that he would know what to do next to get it working, whereas I would have to accept it as fate. > > However the first source package I downloaded was GRUB and its >compiling part went on smoothly. But my subsequent compiling experiences weren't that similar. > >Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >___________________________________________________________ >Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com >http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm > > >_______________________________________________ >Mailinglist mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org
