From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5033dff4d63fe27a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT & GPS on Linpus Linux Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:03:53 +0200 Message-ID: <740moaF119la3U1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net 6cCWSrqlkPgkBQyM5DoWTQjoVa6BBGa60Zr3AXl3kwpiOIzu8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:vaGet9Wl1AAh5lZ+wCUPgw0RvpA= User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4453 Date: 2009-04-07T12:03:53+02:00 List-Id: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote: > Hello, > I am about to buy a mini-laptop with the Linpus operating system > installed, which is a variety of Linux if I understand well. > Did someone have experiences with GNAT and GPS (GPL) on such a beast ? > Any advice about which version / distro / whatever to use ? > I have close to zero experience with Linux and would like to keep the > maintenance to the minimum - in order to keep enough time for > programming :-). Perhaps you refer to an Acer Aspire One, which comes with linpus (I have one). I don't like the linpus variant (is an old Fedora 8 with some custom packages that prevent proper use of the full F8 repos), but I still keep it because I love the ultra-fast boot. However, if some day it breaks, I will go for either eeebuntu or the ubuntu netbook remix variants. I've read that most hardware in the aa1 is functional with these, barring some minor things. To your question: never tried to install gnat on linpus, but certainly it works on ubuntu, and you can get ubuntu running on the aa1 with relative ease (although if you have the 512M ram version it can be a real problem. It will boot to desktop okay, but once you open a firefox and something else it will be a lazy dog. And gnat/gcc can require some good memory sometimes). OTOH, once you break out of the default linpus gui, with yum you can install a great deal of F8 packages, which may allow for gnat on linpus. Never tried, though. However you say you have little linux experience, and I'm afraid that in any case you'll need some initial tinkering for any of the options to succeed. So brace yourself... ;) Some links: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne http://www.eeebuntu.org/ http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr