Phil Cook wrote:
> Depends on what you want to run. Again, as has been pointed out before, 
> for basic clerical work Linux works. The problems can be summed up with 
> Nicholas's "That's the *basic* installation method on Linux. If you 
> don't even know how to unpack a .tar.gz... you don't know Linux."

no, this is just plain wrong.  Unless Nicolas is running Slackware, the 
Linux community as a whole has moved from basic 
tarball-source-compile-install to automated dependency-tracking 
repository packages installs.  There's no command-line involved, unless 
you want to.

What I think Nicolas means is that gzip is the *nix standard packing 
format, which it's always been indeed.

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