[KLUG Members] Good heavens, a distro without vi ?!?

[Adam Williams]

>It's funny, I was talking to someone about this recently (was it Bruce??)...
>Yesterday afternoon, I installed SOT Linux on a machine that I had just built
>and wanted to smoke test... new distro, new machine, so why not give both a
>whirl?
>It didn't take a lot of poking around (like three commands) to encounter a
>"vi: command not found" message. I thought it was a fluke, some funny choice
>on the part of the distribtors. I started a superuser session and tried 
>again... nope.. then find... also not here.
>I have been playing with one UNIX-like system or another, an and off, since 
>1985, and I have never, never, NEVER seen a default install that did not 
>include vi or a close variant that worked on a command line...I'll hunt 
>about on the SOT Linux CD and see if they supply it....

>From what I read SOT is a desktop specific distribution,  primarily as a
platform for SOT office.  Or that was the reviewers take on it anyway. 
Why would a productivity desktop need a command line text editor?

That's my rational response.... but my spirits response to a vi-less
UNIX is "Eeeegads!"
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