[gtkada] GtkAda / Advice on Linux Flavor

[Preben Randhol]

ANH_VO at udlp.com wrote on 27/11/2001 (17:45) :

> Now, I have a bit more time to get more GtkAda knowledge. In addition,
> I am going to get a more powerful PC. My plan is to install Linux
> along with Windows.  However, I am not sure which Unix Flavor to use.
> I would like your advice on the selection. If possible, you can give a
> short summary for each Linux flavor in term of advantages /
> disadvantages. Thanks in advance for your advice.

If you do not have experience with Linux I recommend SUSE or RedHat. The
prior because the last version comes with Gnat and other Ada pacakges.
Personally I use Debian, but it is a bit harder for a beginner.
Mandrake has also gotten good critics. All these distributions except
Debian use the package format RPM, Debian uses DEB. The advantage with
packages is that you don't have to compile things as long as somebody
has done it for you :-). This also makes it easy to uninstall software.
To get RPM and Deb files for Ada on Linux go here:
http://www.gnuada.org/alt.html

some links to read:

http://www.linux.org/dist/index.html
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1266/1/
http://www.distrowatch.com/

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