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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server?
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On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:39:06 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Tero Koskinen" <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote in message
> news:20130103174200.bcf9c1584b18c0225c153789@iki.fi...
> 
> It sounds like Fedora changes too often for my taste. (Do they have an
> equivalent of the LTS of Ubuntu?). 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.

It's not difficult to use a newer Gnat on top of Debian, if that is your 
only objection. I don't know what the formal objections to updating Gnat 
(and its immediate dependencies) to "testing", perhaps Ludovic can say.

But I have built gcc4.7.2 from source and not seen any glitches (beyond 
having to set paths so it can find libraries) and I believe Adacore Libre  
Gnat would work too. Building from source might not be recommended for a 
server though!

- Brian