[Dev] 0.7 Linux story

[Bryan Stearns]

+1 Ubuntu - I use it at home, too.

Heikki Toivonen wrote:

>Until now we have done most of our development and testing on Fedora
>Core Linux. The FC 2 we've been using is quite outdated by now. We've
>also found that keeping FC system up to date, and upgrading to newer FC
>versions can be quite a bit of work. This is just to say it's again time
>to think about our Linux story.
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>First of all, I do think it is beneficial to have one official Linux
>version which is supported by IT, so there is the question of which
>distribution should we choose for general, IT-supported Linux platform.
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>My first suggestion would be to go with Ubuntu. It is a distribution
>growing very fast in following, it has active corporate backer and it
>just seems to work well. Many people at OSAF already use it. Since it's
>Debian based, keeping an Ubuntu system up to date and even upgrading it
>to newer versions is easy.
>
>My main reservation against Ubuntu is that it is lacking in some
>developer tools and some more esoteric programs. With this I mean the
>binaries available in the package database - one can of course always
>get the sources and build. One such missing piece is KCachegrind which
>is a nice program to analyze profile runs visually. If we could find an
>easy way to get all the dev tools on Ubuntu, this wouldn't be an issue.
>
>Anybody have other viable suggestions (I think we want to stick to some
>popular distribution)? Votes for or against Ubuntu?
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>In 0.7 we should also take a more careful look at how we distribute
>Chandler on Linux. Ideally with modern package systems we'd have
>Chandler rely on packages already on the system (or installed because of
>marked dependencies).
>
>To make this possible we need to do some work with our build system. The
>actual packaging of Chandler could be done by volunteers already
>familiar with the packaging systems of their platforms. This starts
>making sense now that Chandler is actually becoming usable.
>
>I've also been keeping an eye on some new/unusual packaging systems on
>Linux which we might want to try out. For example, there is Klik which
>resembles the OSX system in the sense that you make a disk image of
>everything your program needs, and mount that to run the program. This
>means you avoid much of the hassle of library version mismatches.
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