Re: Fedora, Debian and other GNU/Linux distributions

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded in
> news:7dselbfeaujk$.1l2cgo8q8xkvf$.dlg@40tude.net: 
>
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:19:22 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> 
>>> Debian's philosophy is "install once, upgrade many" and indeed, I
>>> only install once per machine. I've had my current laptop since
>>> November 2006, when I installed Debian on it, and it have upgraded it
>>> constantly ever since. I normally upgrade every week or so, tracking
>>> the "testing" distribution. I have also successfully upgraded servers
>>> from one stable release to the next several times.
>> 
>> Sounds promising. Upgrading to Fedora Core 13 dismays me. And Debian
>> seems to be the best maintained Ada Linux distribution.
>
> That's good to hear. I am a Debian fan as well. I even have
> it running on an old Dec Alpha machine, which I should boot
> up again and update. ;-)

Unfortunately, you are out of luck; there is a regression in GCC 4.4 on
alpha which caused us to drop support for that architecture from all Ada
packages in Squeeze.  You'll have to stay with Debian 5.0 "Lenny", or
perhaps upgrade to it.

http://gcc.gnu.org/PR42073

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.