Re: Debianizing -- increasing ASM's reach into Linux


However, in nearly every one of them it is a very old version
(0.98.38).

ok, so 0.98.38 was released in 2003, but since then there has only
been one other release and that was in 2005 (ref:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6208&package_id=44298)
so date-wise, it's very old, but version-wise it's not really...

another point: when you say "nearly every distro" then only list
debian and one of debian's off-shoots, then it paints your results in
a different colour -- ignoring the obvious "debianizing" in the
title.... have you looked into other OS's? You talk about the "Linux
world" but you really seem to be talking about the "Debian world"
which is quite a different thing.

Centos 5 does not come with nasm. I had to install manually.

To take a different approach, the decision to code in Assembly is not
one that people "fall" into in this day and age. UNIX is a C world.
Those who do make the conscious decision to code in asm are going to
be the sort of people who should be able to cope with assessing the
assembler options they have (fasm/yasm/nasm/gas) and if they choose
nasm, a half meg download is hardly going to faze them.

I think something that would serve the Linux community (or just the
Debian community if you so wished) better would be a a web resource.
Sure they exist, but there's always room for improvement, or for a
different approach and more targeted advocacy.

To take yet another approach to the argument -- linux is all about
freedom. Why should people accept your choice in assembler? Shouldn't
they be free to choose their own?

a few things to think about. :)

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