[Lazarus] The perfect Linux distro for FPC and Lazarus development

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Op 2011-03-07 12:58, Frank Church het geskryf:
>>
>> How about a stock VMWare, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 image that is setup
>> just right for perfect Lazarus/FPC development, with all the options
>> setup exactly right?
> 
> I thought about that years ago, but not everybody has a beefy system to 
> run a VM session with good performance. Slackware is easy enough to 
> setup, and comes with all development libraries that you need to develop 
> with FPC and Lazarus. Thus, that is good enough for me.

I've successfully run both Slackware and Debian using UML (User Mode 
Linux), which allows you to have a slightly-tweaked kernel running as a 
guest of a host handling the real hardware. And I did this on something 
like a 400MHz P-II. CPU efficiency was good, disc access suffered.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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