nemesis wrote:
> 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.

And if you do, it's usually something like "emerge povray" or whatever 
the distro in question uses.

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

The best part is when you say "make configure", and it says 
"Unrecognised arch 'i586/SuSE 10.3'". And you're like "WTF? Now what do 
I do??"

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