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|    Richard Falken to Maurice Kinal    |
|    A Terminal and a Manual    |
|    21 Oct 19 14:48:40    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 47564.linux@1:103/705 22141784       REPLY: 2:280/464.113 5dae20b7       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Win32 Oct 20 2019 MSC 1922       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.143 Oct 8 2019 GCC 6.3.0       COLS: 100       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.103        Re: A Terminal and a Manual        By: Maurice Kinal to Kai Richter on Mon Oct 21 2019 09:18 pm               > I seriously doubt the above contains gcc and friends which as of gcc-9.2.0        takes up 455MB for        > the        > basic toolchain which in my humble guesstimation is the bare bones minimum       to call a linux-gnu        > shell enviroment. Without gcc and friends the above is only a toy and       doesn't even rate        > calling a        > evaluation system given the lack of development tools. Anything that       cannot take care of        > itself        > isn't worth booting in the first place.              Hmmm... so you do think that an operating system install that lacks a GCC       compiler is, for lack of a better expression, not worth it?              I think that take is a bit extreme. Maybe you have a small computer farm and       do all your package building in a compiling cluster, then distribute your       packages from your local repository to your clients. I used to do something       like that with OpenBSD. The client computers don't need to have a full GCC       because you are doing the work somewhere else :)              But, hmmmm, if you are setting up for learning, and are running a single       instance, then I think you actually need a good set of development tools in it.       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 103/705 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 227/114 229/354       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 616 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 2452/250 5020/545       PATH: 103/705 280/464 229/426           |
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