Hi, Ubuntu, though is targetted at a general computer user, is often used by many who also regularly code in C/C++. Also, it's quite popular among college students, who have some sort a basic course in C. And when they try to compile a .c file, and find that stdio.h isn't available, they are lost. I agree that all they have to do is insert the cd, and run a small command or open up synaptic. But, it isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation prominently enough.
So, is it possible to get build-essential included as a package that gets installed in the base system itself? Space won't be a issue, as the .debs are already there on the cd/dvd. This would also make life easier for a lot of people, and keep them interested in Linux. This I say from the experience of a lot of friends, who took Ubuntu 'lite' after they found that they couldnt compile a simple C program, while Linux is something that's been mainly coded in C. Ninad S. Pundalik http://ninadpundalik.co.cc/blog P.S.: Ubuntu ha sonly vim.tiny installed since 8.10. I was not very happy with this, as I expect many other users would... -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
