Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 03/01/2025 18:04, DFS wrote:

On 1/3/2025 7:48 AM, David Brown wrote:

On 02/01/2025 19:16, DFS wrote:

On 7/4/2024 4:24 AM, David Brown wrote:

On 03/07/2024 15:41, DFS wrote:

On 7/3/2024 5:36 AM, bart wrote:

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That's enough of a track record for even one person that one can say, Linux pretty much always comes with gcc. And if it doesn't, it's easy to install as you say.

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distrowatch.com shows most distros come with gcc preinstalled.
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No, it does not.

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Yes, it does.
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No.
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You were wrong half a year ago when this discussion was active, and you are still wrong now.  Are you /really/ bearing a grudge for that long?

 My experience in the past was gcc was almost always installed with the distro.
 

So what?
My experience in the past is that Linux is almost always Debian or a Debian derivative, and I have installed gcc myself if it is appropriate.   But that's /my/ experience because of the distos /I/ choose.  It is no more and no less relevant than /your/ experience.  The reality is that in most Linux distributions, gcc is not installed by default.

 

Distrowatch shows the version of the packages in the distributions repositories,

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Wrong again.
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 From the founder of distrowatch:
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"The package versions are the ones included on the install media."
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gcc is neither necessary, nor installed by default, by most distributions.  All Distrowatch says is that it is usually included on installation media, available for easy installation.
Now you can go back to sleep for another six months.