On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:40:44 +0200, Lonnie Cumberland <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks for hte reply and I will look into the forum more for this type of
an answer. My intent was mainly to try to get an idea as to what the most
stable platform was for the current VB development as I want to develop
on VB as well but wanted to get a feel for the lay of the land, as it
were
from the developer perspective, first.
Lonnie, having been confronted with that question myself very recently I'd
suggest for doing Virtualbox development picking a stable platform
running either LTS (long time support) or at least STABLE kernel versions.
for LTS:
o Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS - ships with 5.0 based kernel, currently at: 5.0.0
(gcc 7.4.0)
https://ubuntu.com/#download
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes
o Linux Mint 19.2 - currently at kernel: 4.15.0 (gcc 7.4.0)
https://www.linuxmint.com/
o OpenSuse Leap 15.1 - currently at kernel: 4.12.14 (gcc 7.4.1)
https://www.opensuse.org/#Leap
o Debian 10.0.0 - currently at kernel: 4.19.0 (gcc 8.3.0)
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/
https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706
for STABLE:
o OpenSuse Tumbleweed - currently at stable release kernel: 5.3.6 (gcc
9.2.1)
Rolling release
https://www.opensuse.org/#Tumbleweed
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
o Ubuntu 19.04 - based on release kernel series 5.0, currently at kernel:
5.0.0 (gcc 8.3.0)
https://ubuntu.com/#download
https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiscoDingo/ReleaseNotes
https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
o Ubuntu 19.10 - based on stable kernel 5.3
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/eoan-desktop-amd64.iso
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/ubuntu-19-10-release-features
I'd abstain from the more esoteric and special Linux distros
for the purpose of a development platform for Viertualbox.
hth
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frankB
Oracle Virtualbox Development
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