Build Master: Scheduling II

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On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 17:09:34 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-12-06 17:45, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>
>> I crashed my system so I had to start over with a fresh
>> installation/configuration. The following images are installed 
>> within
>> VirtualBox:
>>
>>     OS X 10.9
>>     Ubuntu 12.04
>>     Fedora 19
>>     FreeBSD 9.2
>>     Windows 7 [1]
>>
>> All images are 64 bits and allotted 20.00 GB fixed storage, 32 
>> MB Video
>> Memory, and enabled Bridge network adapter. The base system is 
>> currently
>> a MacMini running OSX 10.9 but will be upgraded to a Mac Pro 
>> in the near
>> future. Are there any other OS's that should be included?
>
> I would have chosen Debian instead of Ubuntu and something like 
> Red Hat or CentOS instead of Fedora. The reason for this is 
> that they're older and more likely to work on more systems.

Unfortunately it does not provide hard guarantees. Major version 
change may imply ABI breakage so using older distro / libraries 
buys you nothing.