How can one say Linux is $-free . . . ?

[Adriano Varoli Piazza]

2006/10/26, YAGNESH N DESAI <ynd at hzw.ltindia.com>:
>
>
> Friends;
>
> I just shifted to Linux and have tried on laptop read a lot about the
> meaning of Free. But just was wondering is it really $-free . . . ?
>
> I have invested 40hrs and still counting on getting and installing Linux and
> trying to make it work. (Though it was fun but its not yet working to my
> full
> satisfaction and I am at it).

Tried http://ubuntuguide.org? Has helped me with most of my questions.

> While above time does not includes my time participating in such discussions
> and preparing pages on my experience.
>
> Also after all this efforts I am not able to compile
> many of the softwares in ubuntu I tried to compile Mplayer from its official
> site. . .

Why would you want to? a default compiler and compiling tools aren't
included in Ubuntu (sudo apt-get install build-essential will install
them) and mplayer  and necessary codecs are already packaged for
ubuntu, if you follow the instructions in ubuntuguide (link above).

> Many of the downloads compilations are in .rpm package which means do I need
> an RedHat based Linux too on my laptop?

I haven't had to install from RPMs since I stopped using Mandriva.
What exactly are you trying to achieve?

You sound deeply misinformed (no offence)

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