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On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 22:24 -0400, Jeffrey Creem wrote:

> If you care about Ada support under Linux, it sure seems as if debian is 
> the way to go.

Yeah. See also http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html
You will not typically find this Ada setup with other
distributions. Being based on Debian, Ubuntu is similar, though.

A few days ago, I had an opportunity to install the new Debian 4
in a VMWare virtual machine on top of W2K. A surprisingly swift
combination (Debian seems to be "VM aware").