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: a07f3367d7,b2c4d98cbc17f0a9 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A proposal for Debian policy for Ada References: <87aarzd14c.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <198miwzl97pnl$.1onmpwoadjr1p.dlg@40tude.net> <87632ncxjg.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <9vgayrtxydx3.y97a4jp28sin$.dlg@40tude.net> <821vd91vx3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <128sk4lf7e74o.exterpadd849$.dlg@40tude.net> <982f31af-6db1-4949-8e62-0efb3c034dd2@o15g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <82pr0sxmz5.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 06:45:41 -0400 Message-ID: <82632ix356.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1GiKf7bBCfR27/bmyXUItv3sA9o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: b53a64bf5135be197caa705386 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11793 Date: 2010-05-20T06:45:41-04:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > On Wed, 19 May 2010 05:25:02 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote: > >> That doesn't say how to get the "list of Linux distributions" in the >> first place, which was my question. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions Ok, thank you. By my count, that's 94 distributions. If we just count the "base distributions", it's about 10. But I don't see any a priori reason to do that. > You can certainly reduce that to the list of "popular distributions" shown > here: Why? Ada is not a "popular language"; maybe one of the "unpopular" distributions is a good fit for Ada! -- -- Stephe