Re: Ada on FreeBSD?

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

xavier grave writes:
> Le 25/11/2010 23:14, Maciej Sobczak a écrit :
>> What is your experience with Ada on FreeBSD?
>> 
>> I have found a couple of relevant packages, the ports collection even
>> includes GNAT GPL 2010, but certainly the coverage is much less
>> impressive than that of Debian.
>> 
>> If you are using Ada on FreeBSD, what is your general perception of
>> the toolchain integration and portability? What is the extent of your
>> use of Ada on this system? Do you use GtkAda there? AWS?
>
> I'm using Ada under Debian/kFreeBSD as a Debian Maintainer. It runs
> quite well as far as I remember. May be some glitch at the beginning of
> the port of some packages...
>
> One (out of topic ?) remark : on the same hardware, the data acquisition
> software was running "better" (from a data flow point of view) on the
> kFreeBSD version than on Linux (comparisons values lost somewhere on my
> hard disk), may be this should raise some interest for this target for
> those who are looking for performances ?

In the same vein I'd like to recount my own success story with Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD.  I had an old laptop (IBM ThinkPad T22, made in 2001) that
would no longer boot Linux, probably due to some fault in the hardware.
Even the Linux on the Debian installer disk, or that on the System
Rescue CD, would not boot; the laptop was essentially bricked.  I then
burned a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD install disk and it booted and installed on
that old hardware without a glitch, giving a third life (Debian
GNU/Linux was already its second life) to this old machine.  That same
day I sent an email to Aurelien Jarno, thanking him for creating Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD.

That old laptop still has all the Ada packages installed on it, BTW.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.