Jan Waclawek writes: > My biggest problem is, that this is a hobby and I do it at home. And I live > in a small village, with no high-speed internet, just a POTS dialup (thanks > for that) or a similarly slow GSM/.GPRS connection. > > And this STUPID STUPID STUPID world, including the OS community, simply > assumes that . I don't believe this at all - why, this plainly excludes all > the 3rd world from, and that's the vast majority of potential developers!
If you use GNU/Linux, most of the stuff you need is either installed as part of the base or easily added from the CD. Some distros, like Fedora, CentOS and Mandriva, come on multiple CDs which include gobs of software packages. Many others come on only one CD which may not have everything you need so they assume you will download anything else. There are lots of companies that will sell you CDs by mail with various distributions of GNU/Linux and other open source software for typically $1 or $2 per CD. I've put a bunch of links at the bottom. I haven't looked, but I wouldn't be terribly surpised to find a vendor that would allow you to select SDCC, burn it, and ship it. BTW, before I got cable a few years ago, I got a second phone line and spend 7 days--yes a solid week--downloading 4 Mandriva Linux ISO images. That was kind of silly in retrospect when I could have gotten them by mail, but I can empathize with you. -Ken Jackson <http://linuxonline.biz/> <http://lincd.com/ <http://www.linuxcollections.com/> <http://shop.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart> <http://www.alllinuxcd.com/> <http://linuxcentral.com/> <http://www.cheapiso.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
