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H_TeXMeX_H:

--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---I installed Xubuntu simply because I got pissed trying to compile GTK to compile the GIMP on FreeBSD. This is the first damn distro I've seen without GCC or any compiler for that matter.
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and that's a good thing ?

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---I installed Xubuntu simply because I got pissed trying to compile GTK to compile the GIMP on FreeBSD. This is the first damn distro I've seen without GCC or any compiler for that matter.
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The average user doesn't require those tools (I bet it's the first distro with as many big packages on a single CD too?). If you want them install the build-essential package.

H_TeXMeX_H:
But gcc is an all-essential tool in Linux ... without it, you can't compile anything (well anything C or C++) Don't tell me that they have binaries for everything, cuz they don't ... you're gonna end up having to compile some of it yourself.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---But gcc is an all-essential tool in Linux ... without it, you can't compile anything (well anything C or C++) Don't tell me that they have binaries for everything, cuz they don't ... you're gonna end up having to compile some of it yourself.
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They don't have binaries for everything, they have binaries for what they believe to be enough.

H_TeXMeX_H:
I'd really like an all-binary distro, but only if they have binaries for everything. I don't like compiling things cuz I've found that if you manage to compile something, it still may not work :( ... binaries on the other hand have been tested to work, and I've never had a binary not work on my system (assuming the dependencies were resolved correctly). Besides you usually need a lot more libraries to complie things that to run a binary (kind of a waste of space).

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