From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:15:12 +0100
Date: 2013-01-04T03:15:12+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk0ppubz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kc51ae$2de$1@munin.nbi.dk
Randy Brukardt writes on comp.lang.ada:
> It sounds like Fedora changes too often for my taste. (Do they have an
> equivalent of the LTS of Ubuntu?).
Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux; 7 years of paid support for each major
release, but no GNAT included in it.
> And it sounds like Debian stable is just too old relative to GNAT (I
> do use some Ada 2005 features in my code, no interfaces though.) None
> of which looks too promising.
GCC 4.4 does support many Ada 2005 features; it has the Containers for
example.
In case you really need GCC 4.6, you'll be happy to learn that Debian 7
"Wheezy" has been frozen for months and is very close to becoming
stable; only critical bug fixes are allowed at this point, so the API
and ABI are really "stable" already. In fact, at this point in time I
recommend you install that and in a couple months time you'll find that
the upgrade to the real "stable" will be minimal.
[Anecdote: last week I installed Wheezy on a 12-year-old Apple
"Clamshell" iBook with 320 Mb of RAM and a 366-mHz PowerPC 750CX
processor; works like a charm].
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 0:42 Linux distro for new server? Randy Brukardt
2013-01-03 5:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-03 15:42 ` Tero Koskinen
2013-01-03 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-03 22:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-04 0:10 ` Brian Drummond
2013-01-04 11:42 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-04 2:15 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2013-01-04 2:46 ` Bill Findlay
2013-01-04 2:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-04 2:53 ` Bill Findlay
2013-01-04 2:46 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-05 4:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 7:59 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2013-01-11 16:55 ` Björn Persson
2013-01-04 8:33 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-04 11:49 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-04 12:28 ` Simon Clubley
2013-01-03 18:32 ` Pascal Obry
2013-01-04 14:48 ` Mart van de Wege
2013-01-03 8:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-01-06 23:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-07 9:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-01-07 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-03 21:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-04 6:17 ` montezf
2013-01-05 4:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 16:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-08 2:49 ` Randy Brukardt
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