Re: Debianizing -- increasing ASM's reach into Linux
- From: Evenbit <nbaker2328@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 May 2007 14:05:27 -0700
idle wrote:
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...
That is a matter of perception.
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
If the subject of my post was "Proof that NASM is in nearly every
distro" then you would have an interesting point. If you are
interested in testing the arguement, then, by all means, have at it:
http://distrowatch.com/ Have fun! ;) It is not a subject that is
germain to this thread, but if you want to report your results here,
feel free...
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.
Looking at the statistics you'll see that Ubuntu is the dominate
Distro for Linux "newbies" -- the same target audience that "*.deb"
style packages are aimed at.
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.
Some of the things we "stumble upon" are the things we keep for life.
You just never know...
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.
I wish someone would convince Mark Shuttleworth to do a complete clone
of SourceForge, Inc. (includes Slashdot, Freshmeat, etc.) putting more
serious energy behind it.
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?
I take it that you don't understand how these "packages" things work?
The GNU/Linux world is *community* supported. Meaning... the
community supplies these packages so they are easily available options
for other users of the Distro. They are primarily downloaded from the
'net but some end-up as additional packages on the CD/DVD. In the
case of Ubuntu, most end-up in what they call the "Universe"
repository which the user himself must explicitly choose to enable.
If they enable it then they recieve a huge categorized list (with
descriptions) of all the optional software that is within easy reach.
Nathan.
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