build-essential

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:33:30PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> The thing is, you're putting it in the wrong terms. The Ubuntu desktop is
> not defined by the fact that it's "a Linux machine", and all the baggage
> that phrase means to you. It's a desktop OS. A desktop OS doesn't need a
> compiler.

This is starting to sound like religion.

Having a compiler doesn't make a desktop OS uncool.  It's not interesting or
different to omit a compiler.  What kind of desktop OS ships with emacs,
mutt and vi, anyway?  A Linux one, that's what.

Ubuntu is a Linux system, and I'm not ashamed of that.  Linux has strengths,
including a huge established user community, that we can benefit from at a
negligible cost.

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 - mdz