distrowatch comment: "Ubuntu Breezy Badger - is it too dumbed down? "

[Scott]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 
> Of course "apt-get install build-essential" is the ultimate answer to
> all this, but that specific piece of information is not so easy to
> find out when you are a new Ubuntu user.


The "build essential" package is a tad bewildering to a number of users 
new to Ubuntu, but not to Linux.  Why?  Because they've not used a Linux 
distribution that didn't include GCC or make in the default installation.

I was chatting with a Fedora Core 4 user recently and he said something 
to the effect that it was "lame and inexcusable" that Ubuntu didn't 
include these in the default installation.

That came up when I was raving about how awesome U/Kubuntu is.  That was 
practically the first thing out of his mouth.  He said he "refused" to 
give a distro a glance that didn't come with GCC and make.

I thought it was a bit over the top, but he does make (no pun intended) 
a good point.  To the best of my knowledge, we're not even talking about 
10 mb worth of files here. I would "build-essential" could easily be 
included in the default installation.

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