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John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 7 03:02:12 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 09:53:52 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Paulo

In my experience - and by design iirc - compiling against an old 
libc and then loading a newer one is always fine. If you use an 
up to date distro (as an end user) you are always on the right 
side of this.


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