[gtkada] Re: gtkada digest, Vol 1 #55 - 9 msgs

[Adrian Hoe]

> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:36:12 +0100
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at ACT-Europe.FR>
> To: gtkada at ACT-Europe.FR
> Subject: Re: [gtkada] GtkAda / Advice on Linux Flavor
> Reply-To: gtkada at lists.act-europe.fr
> 
> > By the way take me off of the mailing list : I don't
> > agree which such "fachism" practice in an open list. I
> > think you should have to learn about politness...
> 
> I think you are over-reacting. I don't see any trace of rudness in
> Arno's answer. On the other hand, calling somebody a "facist" (no 'h'
> BTW), is offensive.
> 
> It is fine to have a short discussion about which distro is best suited
> to use GtkAda. On the other hand, a long thread of messages describing
> the merits of such and such distribution is definitely off-topic. I you
> don't put limits to off-topic messages, then it can become chaos.
> Besides, it is really in the sender's interest to send the message to
> the right forum, since this is where he will receive the answers from
> the most qualified persons.


But I think (Anh Vo)'s intention is to get advice from GtkAda's wise men
their opinion/experience working on Linux. Could Henri's response
off-topic? He just expressed all his experience using M8.1 and other
distribution.

Why start a war?

BTW, Anh Vo, I am using Caldera 2.3/2.4 and I am quite happy with it. In
fact, our development team is working on Caldera. The problem with
Caldera is the lib. Most RPM/packages are built around RedHat and SuSE
because these two have the most current kernel. Of course, Caldera has
3.x
which comes with latest kernel 2.4.x. You can take a look at
http://www.gnuada.org and you will find most of the packages are built
for RH and SuSE. It certainly save times when come to installing
ready-made packages. But, Caldera is as good for GtkAda and Glade, I bet
my head on it. I had a little problem not long ago with GtkAda, but
given some time and effort, I have solved the problem with help from
this mailing-list. 

I have heard of SuSE is one of the very best and I certainly agree with
it based on the information I get from their web. I would also like to
try out SuSE one day, when I can steal a little time. If you happen to
choose SuSE, let me know. You have my e-mail address.
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