Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >[...]I've been using Linux for about seven years >and have never once compiled a single ... anything. > ...though that does remain an option which is available with FOSS --unlike the all-closed-source segment which makes up the majority of the M$ ecosystem. ...despite the fact that even that is a rare occurrence these days: http://google.com/search?q=alien+Linux
>[...]There's around 25,000 applications in my Ubuntu repository. > ...and you wouldn't have to look very hard to find someone whose number is ~34,000. It's difficult to keep track of the current total with the number of available FOSS apps growing daily. The old M$-spread mythology about there being no Linux apps was the impetus of my initial statement/question. >[...] >To "create" my OS, I merely downloaded an .iso file, burned it to CD, >and then booted from the CD. > I say boot *to*, but yeah. ...and don't forget the MD5 check in there. >Pretty much like one does with a Windows CD or DVD. > ...except that what you get is a complete graphical desktop whence the entire OS and its full complement of apps can be **run** FROM THE REMOVABLE MEDIA (aka a test drive **without** installing anything) which is something you will NEVER be able to do with a M$ disk. You definitely don't have to run around looking for device driver disks --it's all on the one disk you burn. You can always tell the folks who have never actually tried this, as they are the ones who continue to parrot M$'s purposeful lies. With GPartEd (the GNOME Partition Editor) being a standard part of pretty much every Linux distro, that alone would be a good reason for everyone to make the effort to get a bootable Linux CD; it's a gratis and libre equivalent of Partition Magic. ...then there's the can-save-your-bacon factor of a Linux CD for copying stuff off your HDD when Windoze implodes --without altering the contents of your HDD. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
