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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.