<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll try a "Hello World" program tomorrow evening.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">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. </font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 7:39 PM, trent shipley <<a href="mailto:trent.shipley@gmail.com" target="_blank">trent.shipley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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What is a good, simple desktop oriented distro not derived from<br>
Debian or Ubuntu? GnuCOBOL currently has a significant bug on Ubuntu<br>
14. (No. Red Hat and SUSE are not desktop oriented distros.)<br>
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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.)<br>
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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.<br>
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On 2015-01-05 20:04, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
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you could try the fedora "desktop" release<br>
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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....<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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