It is still not possible to use D on debian/ubuntu

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 15:11:42 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> Not to mention that not all linux distributions work this way. 
> Even not all the debian -> unbntu ones (such as Mint), and 
> certainly not the ones based on red hat.

The topic was fairly disputed for RH, but Jakub Jelinek is also 
the author of prelink, and seems a bit biased. There are also IRC 
logs available.
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1113
It's true that ASLR is only a small security improvement that's 
not even relevant to many programs.
I also ran several benchmarks and didn't found any measurable 
changes. So in the end going with PIC by default seemed OK.