[vbox-dev] Virtualbox 6 on Gentoo

[Frank Batschulat]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:40:44 +0200, Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com>  
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
-- 
frankB

Oracle Virtualbox Development