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- From: lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tom Lynch)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS: don't laugh now but...
- Message-ID: <LYNCH.92Aug27004052@flubber.cc.utexas.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 05:40:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.034005.15077@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
- Lines: 55
- In-reply-to: pmacdona@sanjuan's message of 26 Aug 92 03:40:05 GMT
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- >From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- >although it is not clear that everyone will want to spend the
- >~$400.00 (??) or so buy a player and the CD. Maybe though.
-
- I do I do, imagine most of the hardisk just for user data!
- wow..
-
- Programs that should be on a CD distribution IMHO :-)
-
- system:
- linux
- usual bin utils
- man pages
- X windows and some contrib stuff
-
- programming:
- gcc g++ ld, etc.
- gdb
- libraries
- emacs
- make
-
- document:
- tex, latex fonts etc.
- ghostview
- ghostscript, and fonts etc.
- dvips
- xdvi
-
- drawing:
- gnuplot
- xfig
- transfig
- idraw (yes both, the world is split over this, lets just put both)
-
- Communication:
- ftp
- slip
- kermit
- rlogin
-
- I must be missing a bunch of things. Is there already a distribution
- wish list available? Perhaps others could add to this.
-
- This stuff would be nice to have in a big tar file, or two. Then one
- could just insert the tape and install everything. Or even put the
- tar file in the tmp (overnight download) partition and untar it into
- another partition. No floppies.
-
- Gee, come to think of it, is there such a tar file available?
-
- -tom
- lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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