Re: Advice on A Version of Linux Needed.

[Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>]

On Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 11:01:00 AM UTC+1, MM wrote:
> 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
> --

Hi Mark,

I have no experinece of using KDE but it looks good on the" The Big Book of Linux Ada Programming" so I will probably go down the KUbuntu road initially.  I will also look at Eclipse and try that also.

I am truly grateful for your help here - Austin