Recent Fedora installs are now a livecd as well no longer DVD's On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Jim March <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: >> when I tried to start Ruby it told me to apt-get it. Unfortunately, I do not >> have internet for that box. > > Michael, the thing about FOSS software is, because it's free nobody > spends a lot of time nicely sticking everything on CD. Not with most > distros anyways and certainly not on a single-CD distro like Ubuntu. > > If you want to load software, you need to temporarily hook it up to the 'net. > > The other option is to go with a multi-CD (or DVD) distro that > includes more stuff in the initial install. Even then, I dunno if > Ruby is going to be there. "Bigger" distros include Fedora last I > checked, and OpenSuse. But again, this still won't eliminate having > to hook it up to get more code. > > Jim > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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