On Sat, 15 May 2010 19:05:34 +0200 Krisztián Nagy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I meant "support" as: Lazarus supporting that distro, only based on gtk+ > version shipped with the specific release. Yes I had worked that out but it's a bit pointless supporting a version of a Linux distribution that the maker of that Linux distribution no longer supports. > Ubuntu 5.04 comes with gtk+ 2.6.4 thus is supported by lazarus which > requires gtk+ 2.6 (not counting any other possible limitations), while > Ubuntu 4.10 only has gtk+ 2.4.9. > This has nothing to do with the official support of the release. > That's what I meant, sorry if it was not clear. Does anyone use a Linux distribution that is no longer supported by it's maker? If so why? Here is a list based on GTK version and if it's still supported by it's maker. Debian stable 5.0 (lenny) 2.12.11 testing (squeeze) 2.20.1 unstable (sid) 2.20.1 http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEtch Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (hardy) 2.12.9 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) 2.16.1 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 2.18.3 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 2.20.0 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Fedora 11 (Leonidas) 2.16.1 12 (Constantine) 2.18.3 will be 13 (rawhide) 2.21.0 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases openSUSE 11.0 2.12.9 11.1 2.14.4 11.2 2.18.1 factory 2.20.0 http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime Mandriva 2008.1 2.12.9 2009.1 2.16.1 2010 2.18.3 http://www2.mandriva.com/support/lifecycle/ Gentoo stable 2.18.6 unstable 2.18.9 Gentoo has a rolling update. (Release version is meaningless) Redhat Enterprise 3.9 2.2.4 4.8 2.4.13 5.5 2.10.4 6-BETA 2.18.6 http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/eol/ GTK versions nicked from http://distrowatch.com/. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
