[Lazarus] What is most Lazarus Friendly Linux Distro

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Juha Manninen wrote:
> On 4/16/13, Graeme Geldenhuys <graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
>> Closer to home... the FPC and Lazarus versions in Ubuntu, Debian etc
>> repositories are always out of date - often 1-2 release behind. Now with
>> Lazarus's shorter release cycle, that issue is even worse.
> 
> Yes, this is a real problem.
> Sometimes you must download and install packages outside the repo or
> compile from source.
> 
> I must try Slackware again. I remember its author was dying for some
> disease few years ago and the whole future of Slackware was uncertain.
> Apparently he recovered. Good.

That I didn't know, and I'm sure we all wish him well.

WITHOUT WANTING THIS TO BECOME A DISTRO WAR: I've got reservations. 
Debian's automatic upgrades can be a blessing where they e.g. 
automatically install a security patch, but at the same time I've twice 
had systems that were broken by an upgrade (in one case because it left 
X incompatible with the kernel, and in the other because it removed 
firmware from the kernel because the Debian managers- bless 'em- had 
decided that the copyright was restrictive).

Also it's obviously worth considering that Debian runs on many more 
platforms than Slackware, and from a support aspect it's far easier to 
get people onto a broadly-ported distro than to have a hodge-podge with 
different package naming conventions etc.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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