Not Debian/Ubuntu Desktop

[trent shipley]

I tried CentOS as a guest Windows 8.1 using VMWare Player, but had some
problems with it. Mostly I couldn't figure out what packages were
available. CentOS seemed to have fewer rpms than other distributions.

The guy who gave me advice on the GNUCobol newbie discussion favored
Fedora. I installed Fedora 21 using VMWare Fusion as a guest on OS X. I had
some trouble installing GNUCobol, again with missing packages. So I wrote
the GNUCobol newbie list again. One reply later, the COBOL compiler
installed.

I'll try a "Hello World" program tomorrow evening.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would have to say, pick something stable that doesn't change much, go
> with that. Personally for dev environments i prefer VM's because you can
> snapshot them and revert anytime you want so you can let your code eat the
> VM, see what it did, and then revert and fix whatever needs fixing and try
> again.
>
> Centos is the epitome of not changing much. and that would suggest it
> meets whatever you need. Just as a desktop environment of choice and you
> are ready to go.
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:39 PM, trent shipley <trent.shipley at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is a good, simple desktop oriented distro not derived from
>>>> Debian or Ubuntu? GnuCOBOL currently has a significant bug on Ubuntu
>>>> 14. (No. Red Hat and SUSE are not desktop oriented distros.)
>>>>
>>>
>> What, precisely, do you mean by "desktop oriented distro"?  I wouldn't
>> recommend SuSE for anything or anyone (it's too buggy), but CentOS 6 with
>> KDE has worked fine for me on a Dell box as a workstation-ish thing at
>> work.  (I have been using Linux for a long time, though, so YMMV on this.)
>>
>> At home, I use Gentoo, because there's no systemd requirement and
>> upgrading is incremental instead of "guaranteed downtime while you
>> reinstall the whole darn OS every couple of years."  Gentoo may not fit
>> your criteria of "desktop oriented" though.
>>
>> On 2015-01-05 20:04, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>
>>> you could try the fedora "desktop" release
>>>
>>
>> Fedora is not a stable thing.  As such, I wouldn't recommend it if you're
>> going to be writing code.  The *last* thing you want when writing code is a
>> system that's b0rked because update 2345 ate libxml2.so.2.9.2, which means
>> most of your GUI desktop applications no longer work....
>>
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