The wonders of linux.
I like to use the text editor pico. Ok, that’s not really true, I prefer a real text editor like TextWrangler or BBEdit, but when I need to edit a simple text file and I’m logged in to some unix machine, pico is what I use. I don’t care for the complexity of vi or emacs (nor do I really know how to use them) when I just want to change my PATH or something. My advisor’s machine, however, does not have pico installed. So, I figured I’d just download the binary and put it my own ~/bin directory and I’d have it when I needed it.
Well good luck finding a binary download of pico. I googled download linux pico and got bubkus. That Tucows page looks promising but doesn’t actually have any downloadable link on it.
Contrast this with a search for mac os x pico download and you find links to download binaries in the top 5 hits. And pico is included with OS X anyway! Of course these installers are for pico and pine, but still.
Where do linux users get their software anyway? I use fink for pretty much everything, but fink is a Macintosh thing. Anyway, I ultimately found pico on another linux box I have access to, gzipped it and scp’ed to the computer in question.
