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Re: number of packages in RedHat
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:
> > not a very good example, Microsoft's installation of win95 doesn't have
> > too man packages at all!
>
> Oh? What about all the office suites? browsers? editors? spreadsheets?
> games? compilers?
you go and "download" them later. the simple user buys the win95 CD, and
get's some cute multimedia clips to keep him tickled but that's more or
less it. then he sits, thinks about the other apps he needs, and goes out
to buy them separately (for now... in the future I suspect Microsoft will
bundle office with the OS)
> I understand there is a large collection of "contributed" RPM's, but
> how are they organized? How do you find out if some package you
they are not
> are interested in exists? And how large (and usefull) is this
> collection?
that's the only problem, it isn't all collected in one place...
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