Re: [Nolug] installing gnu compiler

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 00:38, Chris Bloch wrote:
> Libranet? I will look into it.
> This was actually my girlfriend's box that I built
> her, and so the PRIME consideration was ease of use.
> Mandrake was the only install that automatically
> configured the right sound card, network and video out
> of lycoris, an older mandrake, knoppix, and ark (which
> wouldn't even boot)

You can make *any* distro easy to *use*.

My wife uses straight Debian 3.0 with Gnome 1.4. I put
her favorite apps as icons on the "panel", and left her
to it.

> Likewise, these same distro's didn't configure on my
> box. I couldn't even get mandrake to boot, on my semi
> new computer. The main problem has been getting sound
> out of my intel i810 chipset which does not get
> configured right on any distro. I trashed gentoo
> which was GREAT except for this. If I could have
> fixed it I would have stuck with it, just because
> installing software was so easy.

The beauty of Debian is that upgrading it is incredably
easy. There are those on the list that haven't re-installed
Debian in years. The "apt-get" mechanism makes upgrades
and security patches pathetically easy.

So, even if Libranet (heck, use Debian itself!) won't auto-
magically configure everything, a little hard work and
googling ONCE will pretty much set her up permanently.

> Please give me more suggestions for friendly distros.
>
>
> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 13:28, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > Mandrake must have a way to install new software.
> > Drakconfig, perhaps? I
> > > don't remember much about MDK, as I only ran it
> > for like 2 weeks, but I know
> > > you can install new stuff via whatever installer
> > it uses.
> > >
> > > Hey, if you get in a bind, my offer still stands,
> > I'll come over to your
> > > place and hold your hand (save the jokes, Ron) if
> > you need me to.
> >
> > Whatever are you talking about, Joey?
> >
> > I was going to tell him to dump Mdk and go for
> > Libranet. Underneath
> > all that newbie-friendliness is a *real* OS just
> > waiting to bust out...
> >
> > > Thou spake:
> > > >Hi,
> > > > I just reinstalled my computer with the new
> > mandrake
> > > >beta, but it doesn't come with any compiler
> > tools, or
> > > >a lot of the other software that would come in
> > the
> > > >normal release.
> > > > How would I go about installing gcc? How can
> > it
> > > >compile itself?
> > > >
> > > >Very confused,
> > > >Chris Bloch
> >
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