Re: tlug: Caldera Japanese version (more comments)

[Scott <scottro@example.com>]

Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> ... but does that install things like make, gcc, yacc, flex, binutils,
> etc. that you'd need to compile packages that you download from the net?
> Or is it set up more to be a use-the-canned-binaries-type desktop
> environment?
> 
> If it's the latter, you might as well just use Windows - you'd get the
> same functionality but you'd have a wider range of software to run.
> Running Linux for the sake of saying that you're running Linux isn't
> really the point, now, is it?

This is a good point and one I've been thinking about a great 
deal--however, I think that for myself and perhaps some of the other 
newbies, it's a learning curve thing.  Most people, for example, start with 
Windows and those into learning about it start playing with it till they 
break it.  First they get a bit familiar with the environment.

For example, I knew nothing about UNIX when I first put in the linux 
system.  Yes, right now I'm doing it the newbie for dummies type way, but 
it's a learning curve thing.  Mr. Turnbull pointed out that doing it the 
way I am, putting it in one big partition, is another foolish newbie way to 
do it, but at present, I'm feeling my way.  
So, I think that most of us doing it this way aren't doing it just to say 
we have linux on our machines--we're doing it this way as 
kindergarten--then, as we read, and learn--for instance, till Mr. 
Turnbull's post I had no idea that I  should have several partitions--I've 
been trying to learn about other aspects of it first--we can graduate to 
doing it the way it should be done.

Another Scott (the dumb one)

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