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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.98.36.14 with SMTP id r14mr1978486pfj.16.1500544858819; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:00:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.34.209 with SMTP id o200mr123936ito.0.1500544858673; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!t6no728272itb.0!news-out.google.com!f71ni2574itc.0!nntp.google.com!t6no368774itb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:00:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2001:470:9174:2:2d09:257b:79e9:fffb; posting-account=r0RePAgAAABkc8iAou09Mtfbf-fnKQql NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:470:9174:2:2d09:257b:79e9:fffb References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Advice on A Version of Linux Needed. From: MM Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:00:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47462 Date: 2017-07-20T03:00:58-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, 20 July 2017 10:45:29 UTC+1, Austin Obyrne wrote: > Could I ask some kind person to suggest a version of Linux that strongly supports > programmimg in Ada, ideally one that has a special editor like say KDE's IDE or similar. This is a very personal choice like picking a car or holiday destination. However, Ubuntu is popular, and the KUbuntu variant has KDE. > I will be guided by your experience of any editor however. Extremely personal choice here. If you know the KDE editor, then consider using that with KUbuntu. Eclipse is another good choice as it has more GIDE-type features, but the learning curve is steep. > I have been using AdaGide in Windows_7 up to now to create ciphers but I need to > become more accommodating to other users with some ciphers I have developed > in Ada-95 using a very old compiler i.e.Gnat 311.p Good thinking! :-) Once you know Eclipse, it will work well as a replacement. > Thanks in anticipation of your usual help. No problem! M --