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Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 7 02:53:55 PDT 2014


Am 07.06.2014 11:47, schrieb Dicebot:
> On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 04:34:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 07.06.2014 01:38, schrieb Dicebot:
>>> On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>>> Bleeding edge distros have best h/w support, though that may cost some
>>>>> time wasted of system tinkering once in a while.
>>>>
>>>> I got tired of tinkering. It must work out of the box, otherwise I
>>>> have better things to do with my life.
>>>
>>> Then use normal recent distro release (i.e. latest non-LTS Ubuntu). It
>>> will actually require _less_ tinkering because of new kernel versions.
>>
>> And then start tinkering because of lack of distribution support for
>> certain software, specially closed source one with lots of libc fun.
>
> It is exactly other way around. Most recent distro releases have best
> software support. You are trying to use commercial software mentality
> which does not work well with the way Linux software is developed. Same
> for libc issue - you can use stuff built vs old libc version with new
> one, it is actually what we do with DMD distribution.

I do have quite some experience with .so dependency hell.

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Paulo


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