sure and with no development tools you will never be able to recompile
the kernel or an app that you use all the time. Most new programs that
you download won't install because they need libraries to work.
Development tools are required to have a whole linux operating system.
Tke away the development tools and linux may as well BE wandows or
crapintosh.
For the record here I am not a programmer. The only "language" I know
is english, html and potty mouth ;-) I'm just a computer user who like
to have as much control over my system as I can and I am willing to
learn what it takes to do that.
Huh, pretty much sums up my overall epistemology about life now that I
think about it.
Abe
john rigby wrote:
>
> Ha folks,
> The real problem with the slow uptake of the fantastic Linux
> System is that it *is* trying to be all things to all people.
> There is a VAST difference between the BASIC USER and the
> TRADITIONAL *ux HACKER.
> The 99.99% of people out in the Cyberbog that Linux NEEDS to
> reach/convert to save us all from Bill, do not need now, in the
> future, ever, ANY Development Tools.
>
> The ideal install situation is maybe a 2 disk set:
> Disk A: SIMPLE up-and-go basic Linux with USEABLE *OFFICE*
> APPLICATIONS vis: StarOffice, KDOffice, Browser, IE Lookalike
> Mail program and that is it. NO, repeat NO, Developer stuff
> needed.
>
> Disk B: All the Developer stuff - and certainly no GUI needed.
> Hackers like to get dirty and "change their own oil". :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> John-The-Perpetually-Frustrated-User-ONLY- (Since Fortran and
> CP/M)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux
>
> quote from the artical:
> The week before Christmas, CNET News.com editor Todd Volz blasted
> most of the major commercial distributions, including
> Mandrakesoft, for shipping bloated product. While most of the
> bloat comes in the area of developer-oriented features, i.e.
> mulitple compilers, screen setting controls etc., Voltz viewed
> the business community's reluctance to slim things down for the
> regular user a distressing sign.
