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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What is Linux?
- Date: 4 Mar 96 15:01:05 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.825951665@rscernix>
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- In <4h6au5$1u9@borg.svpal.org> cbennett@svpal.svpal.org (David Bennett) writes:
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- >mich@pbinet.com wrote:
- >: filup@ix.netcom.com (S. Philip Kurumunda ) writes:
- >: >I have heard about it. Does it have a C compiler? I am new to this,
- >: >please forgive me, but I am interested in learning C but have no
- >: >compiler. Should I get Linux? Is there shareware C compiler to do
- >: >simple tasks?
- >: Sure does have a C compiler. A good one. Comes with. Linux is one of
- >: the most configurable, usable free ware os's out there. I like it.
- >
- >Yes! Linux rules! Try http://www.linux.org! The universe's most powerful
- >operating system! And it's covered by the GNU GPL! Totally *awesome*!
- >The C compiler is gcc (GNU cc), and it has an X windows system called
- >XFree86. I like the Slackware distribution best.
- > ------======= GET LINUX NOW! NOW!! ========------
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- Please keep this kind of stuff for advocacy newsgroups _only_.
- ^^^^^
- In this context, "stuff" is an euphemism for "crap" :-)
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- Dan (who is happily running Linux on his PC)
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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