ubuntu 9.10

[Jim March]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> when I tried to start Ruby it told me to apt-get it. Unfortunately, I do not
> have internet for that box.

Michael, the thing about FOSS software is, because it's free nobody
spends a lot of time nicely sticking everything on CD.  Not with most
distros anyways and certainly not on a single-CD distro like Ubuntu.

If you want to load software, you need to temporarily hook it up to the 'net.

The other option is to go with a multi-CD (or DVD) distro that
includes more stuff in the initial install.  Even then, I dunno if
Ruby is going to be there.  "Bigger" distros include Fedora last I
checked, and OpenSuse.  But again, this still won't eliminate having
to hook it up to get more code.

Jim