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A comment on Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education. Parent comment

Re:Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education by rm445 on Sunday April 20, 2014 @03:17PM (#7618116)
Wouldn't it make sense for levinux to ship with a C compiler then? It wouldn't make much difference to the file size and would let people start with C if they wanted to.

(Please correct me if I'm wrong - I just started levinux, ran the initial download, then sshed in and tried 'cc', 'gcc', 'clang', and 'tcc' before giving up).

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Re:Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education by miklevin on Sunday April 20, 2014 @06:45PM (#7618763)
The distribution zip is under 20MB. Even with vim, git and Python, it's still just 60MB. The GNU toolchain pushes it much larger, and it's not part of the early education curriculum I'm proposing. C compiling is something I'll be working people to after several positive experiences with Python. Also, it's just one repository command away from being installed, so I figure I'll add it as one of those menu options that you get presented with after startup.
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