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My company has been running Altera tools on Ubuntu for over 2 years now - and the installation / upgrade process is horrible. I've made requests directly to Altera and to this forum before (and today). http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1092 Thing is - it's a TRIVIAL effort to create .deb files, and not much harder to set up a package server. Ultimately there must be some 'conspiracy' to keep red hat on top. Microsoft type tactics? Using money to keep inferior technology as the 'main stay'. Nah... For the record, I don't hate Microsoft, not nearly as much as I truly believe that Red Hat has done the Linux world a great DIS-SERVICE by not actively improving their package management system. It should be BETTER than Debian's by now, not worse. Lack of good hardware support and good package management has kept Linux off of many a desktop - and greatly increased the 'true cost of ownership' to the point that Red Hat is non-competitive for typical business desktop use. But I rant, I rant. Please Altera, figure out what a .deb file is - start supporting other flavors of Linux besides just Red Hat. Tar balls and the like - for the birds. Jon
