Lazarus/Ubuntu?? Which linux dist is best for...

[Robert W.B.]

development with Lazarus?

Lazarus works great in Windows 7 but, I really want Lazarus to work in Linux.

I tried Ubuntu with Lazarus and it was a sad history!

I want a stable Linux dist that really works with Lazarus.

Anyone know some Linuxdist?

Regards/Rob

[Rails]

I use Debian. In my opinion, Debian Unstable (sid) is more stable than any version of Ubuntu.

 I install FPC using the packages from the Debian unstable repository. I install Lazarus itself using Lazarus provided RPMs via Debian's Alien program using Alien's default settings. I do that for two reasons. The Lazarus packages in the Debian repository are often older than I care for, and the Lazarus provided .debs are built with Ubuntu. They give me all kinds of grief when used with Debian.

FWIW I used the XFCE desktop, not Gnome or KDE.

[theo]

OpenSuSE works great here.

http://software.opensuse.org/131/en
http://software.opensuse.org/package/lazarus?search_term=lazarus

[eric]

I use Debian Testing, and I use the Lazarus and Freepascal supplied debs. They don't give me any grief at all.

[Rails]

I use Debian Testing, and I use the Lazarus and Freepascal supplied debs. They don't give me any grief at all.

That's interesting. It shouldn't make any difference, but what desktop are you using?

I should note that I use both 64 and 32 bit versions. It's been so long since I tried the Lazarus .debs that I don't recall if I had problems with them on both installations or just one of them.

[Robert W.B.]

I Used Wubi amd64 deb.
Lazarus bugged very mutch, I can say!
I had to go back to win 7 very fast.

[exdatis]

I use openSuSe.

[Leledumbo]

The best linux distro for Lazarus is the one you know best. It should work on *buntu, Gentoo, Arch, whatever, provided you know system specific "feature" that may bug Lazarus and you know how to overcome it. I personally use Kubuntu from the start and I never have any problem, except a little Qt bug a little while ago (which is quickly fixed).

[JD]

Works pretty good on Linux Mint 16 for me (starting from Linux Mint 11).

JD

[eric]

I use Debian Testing, and I use the Lazarus and Freepascal supplied debs. They don't give me any grief at all.

That's interesting. It shouldn't make any difference, but what desktop are you using?

I should note that I use both 64 and 32 bit versions. It's been so long since I tried the Lazarus .debs that I don't recall if I had problems with them on both installations or just one of them.

I use KDE, but I only use Lazarus in its default gtk2 mode.

[CaptBill]

development with Lazarus?

Lazarus works great in Windows 7 but, I really want Lazarus to work in Linux.

I tried Ubuntu with Lazarus and it was a sad history!

I want a stable Linux dist that really works with Lazarus.

Anyone know some Linuxdist?

Regards/Rob

Your easiest choice happens to be the best choice...TinyCore. There is no "install", ever! You simply boot it from a cd rom. It is all contained in 2 files totaling <15 mb. You simply create a directory, c:\\tce, and boot from the cd then all the installation files populate this /tce directory. Lives right on the same box as your Windows 7.

In less than one hour you can install not only the OS but Lazarus, git, svn, and the full GNU build system to compile Lazarus/FPC from scratch if you like.

1) Burn the TinyCore.iso in your favorite iso burner app. (10 mins). Reboot into it.
2) Start loading apps from the repo. Save time by going in this order: git, svn, compiletc(Gnu compile tools), Lazarus. (maybe 45 mins)
3) Now you can jump right into installing your components of choice. You are already configured to compile them from source directly by git and svn checkout.

This is the iso you want:
http://tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/archive/4.7.7/TinyCore-4.7.7.iso

Note: Currently the Lazarus and FPC are in the archive of the repo in the /4.x directory. Simply install FileZilla.tcz, run it , go to distro.ibiblio.org, find the files fpc.tcz and lazarus.tcz in /tinycorelinux/4.x/x86/tcz. Hopefully, you will be directed to the correct repo directory as it should be.

If you want a more adventurous route you can try a microcore installation. You start from the ground up at the commandline and install a fully custom install. The "stock" distro is using only XVesa. You can do a full blown X11 system for more graphics performance with a few simple commands. I can load the right driver for my nvidia card and run glxgears (the 3d benchmarking app) with a few simple shell commands.

If you want to try it, get my remaster here :
http://code.google.com/p/ootools/downloads/detail?name=Core64_32e.iso&can=2&q=

This has the microcore 32 bit OS AND the 64 bit version on one iso <20mb. I cannot get the 64 bit version to run on my system, perhaps you can.

[CM630]

I've build a Lazarus app in XUBUNTU. It worked. I don't have an very extremely powerful computer, so I cannot run standard Ubuntu.

[macmike]

Linux Mint for me, works great.

[Rails]

Linux Mint for me, works great.

Mint seems to get the greatest number of overall positive reviews of any Linux distro. I will probably give it a try the next time I need to do an install.

[snorkel]

Arch Linux is the best I have found for having up to date Lazarus stable packages in their repository.