On 2/4/21 1:33 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> ...
> Lowen - thank you for your excellent write up. I am puzzled by a couple
> of things and I have a few comments:
>
> - you say good words about professionalism and make good noises
> about the high quality of Debian, but you do not elaborate why
> you think Ubuntu is lacking in this department.
Has a corporate overlord. If one reason to leave a RHEL-based system is
a corporate overlord who could take it non-open at any time, then I am
not going to any system with what could be termed a Single-Point of Failure.
>
> - you illustrate nicely the problem of linux - half the people worry
> about choosing the right linux for their personal laptop (to be groomed
> to perfection) and half the people need a linux to run 10-20 computers
> used by other people with requirements of minimum maintenance and
> maximum uptime. The same linux is not the right linux for both uses!
Totally agree. I have for years run the same thing on my laptop that I
run on servers; admin tasks between the them are all the same and less
confusion results.
> - professionalism of Debian was recently put into the spotlight
> as they re-voted to re-confirm their commitment to systemd ...
>> 4.) Speaking of Altera.... .
>>
>> - yes, this is a battle. we have and we use Cyclone-1 FPGA boards,
>> so running old versions of Quartus is a must. I am impressed
>> that quartus 13.0sp1 can be made to run on current debian/ubuntu
>> only "with little blood". ...
You did see that I have a WinXP VM to run Quartus 9 for some FLEX 10K
chips, right (Altera UP2 boards)? Quartus II 13sp1 was easier to
install on CentOS 8; Debian 10 has newer libpng. It wasn't hard to do;
lots less work than building KiCAD and Sigrok on CentOS 8.