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: 103376,fa4492559026112a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:52:20 -0600 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:40:42 -0500 From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT on Debian or Gentoo? References: <1142950303.745049.94380@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1142950303.745049.94380@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <92q6f3-1js.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-k8P5bimT3ZbGq8l24QzwAL5OOYye3PId7Dy+JqvUG/9fL0ty69RW9Ps0TmVBlBWyBxO6LdvzT9WKLd4!8Kn+dPPExW1H/OvL4jYJKYt7I87YHTBdHKCU7p608F111qMzdns8cfPLkO2Y0JsFNu4gm/TIYXPi!g/Y= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3541 Date: 2006-03-21T21:40:42-05:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using SuSE Linux all the time and I am tired of SuSE's > broken online updates which frequently crashed and hang my systems. > This happened again 2 days ago after I performed online update to some > systems both in my office and home. I have been testing Debian on two > of my machines at work and both run very stable without reboot. The > online update using apt-get was very stable indeed. > > One advantage of Debian is that one can easily perform a version update > using apt-get. A version update on SuSE is a little tricky and > troublesome. > > I am thinking of switching to Debian or Gentoo. Does anyone have any > experience developing Ada applications on both Debian and Gentoo Linux? > > I read some unfavored comments on Gentoo regarding outdated emerge on > gnat and Ada related packages. On the other hand, I have heard many > good comments about developing Ada applications on both Debian and > Gentoo. I have also read and heard about developing Ada applications on > SuSE. > > I am a little confused and eagerly to move away from SuSE or I should > stay with SuSE. > > Can someone shine some light of wisdom on me? > > Thanks and best regards, > -- > Adrian Hoe > http://adrianhoe.net > Since a lot of the commercial companies (at least in the US) that claim to support Linux target Red hat as the primary (or only) Linux, we tend to use it at work when we use Linux. So, for home use, I decided to go with Centos (www.centos.org) which attempts to be very close to red hat releases with the changes being generally limited to staying in compliance with the Red hat Trademark guidelines. I have successfully upgraded OS versions with yum under Centos. Note that even for normal updates, I have been mildly burned by yum updates. The biggest problem has been things like php library changes that I update and then don't reboot. When I finally reboot for other reasons 3 months later and my website stops working, it has taken as long 10-15 minutes to figure out what I broke. Centos is not the "best" Linux around and I would not claim anything like the level of support for Ada that Debian currently has but it probably deserves a spot in the trade space.