Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.co
!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-o
line.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Hadron 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Ubuntu or Mint?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:28:46 +0100
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <87k5yk4mqp.fsf@geemail.com>
References: 
 <2rq8a4x8bu.ln2@news.gates-of-hell.com>
 
 <45d22602$0$97215$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>
 
 <45d23516$0$97268$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>
 
 
 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: individual.net 69PzkiaCJlHRpzNe4s9ygQirGHKKoN+duG0Ohcp/hkEqhqBowM
X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news
X-Face:  2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%;|j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_!
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:8q0u+4tptHLd5n0wZu5g2hZEdbE=
Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com alt.os.linux.ubuntu:10413

Chris Game  writes:

> On 2007-02-14, SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote:
>
>> I've seen you mention samba before not being on Ubuntu, but it is in my
>> repositories, as is ruby as well as a load of python stuff.
>>
> Obviously it's in the repositories, the issue is what the distro 
> puts on the CD! Of course there are limits to what you can stuff 
> into the space, so the distributors have a difficult job deciding 
> what to pack in and what to leave out. It really depends what kind 
> of users they anticipate.
>
> Wine is also left out of Mint I see.
>
> And slrn!

"not on the cd" doesnt mean its not in the distro. As soon as you are
online you download them.
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Omicron Theta BBS (1:261/20)