Hi Hagen,

you are right. We should support RHEL aka as CentOS / scientific.

I would build a RPM ppa repo, and need to find out how to do it.

But here we should support the newest stable Centos. Scientific

is roughly the same, but testing it is some work so I want to concentrate

on some reference systems

(I will then use VMs {debian, ubuntu-studio-lts, centos} to test install the stuff)

But I dont like centos, because:

I played around with different PPA for centos / fedora and after a while,

I got a completely screwed system with dependencies completely f*cked up.

(Install fnord-lib > 1.42 and install fnord-lib <1.23).

Debian is more complete then centos and centos uses older versions of

libraries compared to especially ubuntu.

As Ubuntu is quite modern and well maintained, many developers like it.

And for non secure systems I use ubuntu-studio so multi media works fine out

of the box as my standard desktop machine.

Also ubuntu-studio it does not have the stupid adware bloat of ubuntu,

where I never look again as they lost their credits with this adware shipping shit.

Using qubes template VMs I can fight against the hell of a screwed up centos,

I am sure :-)

Mac:

no hipster mac will ever be supported!

No Mac stuff will ever be bought as the apple quality sucks!
I had (I was lured in by a student discount offer) a new mac book pro with core2duo and

pci-express slot where the screen died after 1,5 years and the battery blew up like a bread

in the oven and apple did not care for warranty "sue us if you dare to"

So apple should die. If you *really* (no right and middle mouse button -> how to

use xfig! ) like mac-os buy a dell-pig machine (laptop or workstation

and make it a hackintosh -> mac and dell are build after intel arch specs)

Recommended HW:

And I use my "secure"-os which is qubes on a pig machine (no hipster mac

stuff will ever be bought as the apple quality sucks).

A pig machine is a big fat workstation made by dell or HP containing at least

one xeon cpu and enough RAM (>32GB) to have several VM running at the time.

The pig machines can be used with qubes-os and depending on your peripheral

needs (I often play with PCI-X and scsi so the architecture with fbdimm and

core4duo based 45nm xeons is perfect for that, as it is imho the last

lecacy-rich architecture)

If you want just build software go for a modern pig machine with lots of RAM

and CPU cores, and ask for an electricity flat or see the machine as a aux. heating

system :-)

"RAM is like engine displacement and it can only be replaced by more engine displacement

or RAM respectively"

And

"If you thought you know linux, just install qubes-os and learn how to drill a hole into

your right and left knees while trying to do something that you thought is 5 minutes

on a linux shell"

Cheers

Ludwig