[rescue] spam WPOISON

Tue Sep 9 08:42:23 CDT 2003

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:07:20PM -0400, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:

> >>   How about Linux and other distros ?
> >
> >   Linux comes with a C compiler.
> 
> true... but many people haven't ever used them to setup these servers,
> so they are not likely to do so to add to them... 
> 
> I don't know, but I assume there may be some appliances that don't come
> with a compiler (at least installed)... although being based on Linux
> they could probably get one on there.... 

But, why bother putting a C compiler in an appliance, when you can just
cross-compile (well, sometimes I can see a point to putting the compiler
on the appliance).