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I'll explain:

Posted Oct 24, 2006 19:00 UTC (Tue) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)
In reply to: I'll explain: by oak
Parent article: GPLv3: What the Hackers Said (Linux Journal)

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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I'll explain:

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.

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