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<pre><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><em> Thomas,
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<em> And after you build such hardware what O/S ... meaning which distro
</em><em> ... and do you do a full install (including the kitchen sink) or a
</em><em> minimum install (just to get it to boot) and then what do you add that
</em><em> if NOT installed would to *you* leave the Desktop incomplete? This
</em><em> 'list' might not include ever last bit of tweaks but at least defined
</em><em> by *you* the BIG gapping holes.
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<em> My example would be ... I had not yet installed ... Ruby, Lua, or the
</em><em> gcc compiler chain ... the missing editors ... joe and nano and vim
</em><em> ... math tools
</em>
<em> like dc and calc and maybe the 'Nasm.' assembler. I think that most
</em><em> common Linux distos will have already install 'perl' or 'python'
</em><em> environments or </em><em>the installer itself would not have worked.
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<em> Is there even such a tool or package utilities that could tell someone
</em><em> who is doing system admin on a desktop system that information?
</em>
<em> Also ... I have on several occasions build my own computers even prior
</em><em> the the '486 days of the Intel-based desktops and been using computers
</em><em> back to then R.S. TRS-80 model 1 and 3's were brand new state of art.
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<em>regards,
</em>
<em>David</em></span></pre>
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