Re: Fedora, Debian and other GNU/Linux distributions

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Brenta expounded in news:87633i2gdt.fsf@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

I'll make a note, thanks.

Warren