Re: gEDA-user: Greetings! I am new here

["Samuel A. Falvo II" <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/23/05, Al Davis <ad82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ask, that is reasonable.  Do any distributions really leave out
> gcc?????

In my experience, it looks like SuSE 9 and 10 series will leave gcc
off a box by default (you can always use Yast to install it easily
enough).  Considering SuSE's goal as a business-class desktop OS
environment as well as a data center-class back-office server OS, this
makes perfect sense.  Leaving off the C compiler by default helps to
stop the spread of self-reproducing, source-based worms or trojans.

In this case, a bug to one is a feature to another, which aids in
default, out of the box, system security.

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Samuel A. Falvo II