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I'll explain:

Posted Oct 24, 2006 18:50 UTC (Tue) by oak (guest, #2786)
In reply to: I'll explain: by tetromino
Parent article: GPLv3: What the Hackers Said (Linux Journal)

> Now, to be fair, gcc is ~256MB. However, the standard security practice
> in most organizations is to never install any compilers or development
> tools on production servers.

I've used Linux on my workstation >10 years. Workstation without a
toolchain is a toy, somewhat similar to default Windows installation.
For development work Gdb is pretty important and quite huge too...

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I'll explain:

Posted Oct 24, 2006 19:00 UTC (Tue) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846) [Link]

Of course you need gcc on workstations and development machines. However, most sysadmins I've met are a bit paranoid about installing a compiler on a production server.

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Posted Oct 25, 2006 0:00 UTC (Wed) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

I've been a sysadmin for the better part of twenty years and I've never understood that particular foible. It is trivial to ftp, scp, etc over a binary once you have local access. And far less obvious potentially.