From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 13:37:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0CA152C0 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:37:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA01999; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:36:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:36:52 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990228133652.B475@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990228131503.A1563@relay.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:32:07PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It should be too easy to replace the compiler after the system is > installed...and shouldn't be seen as a major "hindrance"... But as Micro$hit knows, being able to check off feature boxes is important. Here, the CS dept encourages people that own a PC to install a Unix at home (we are still 100% Unix based for classes). When I push FreeBSD, I get asked if EGCS comes with it. I say no not by default, but we have a very easy to add version of it. They say, why go through the trouble if Linux already has it by default. Same for our support people. They are the laziest and most non-computer enthusiast group I've ever seen. Path of least effort is what wins with them. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message