I can confirm that ghc-6.8.1 builds from source completely without fuss on the latest ubuntu (7.10). (... though it took a couple of hours of cpu time :-) Tim -----Original Message----- From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Seth Gordon Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2007 7:31 AM To: 'haskell-cafe Cafe' Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell? Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Each year I give Linux a try. And usually I kick it off my harddrive after a month, and stick to Windows. However, it does get better each year, so...
So which kind Linux works best for running GHC (6.8.1) and related tools? (I want to give Yi a go, I can't get it to work on Windows). Debian? Fedora? Ubuntu?
I don't know which Linux distribution is best *for Haskell*, but in my experience, Ubuntu has been the best distribution for getting up and running on Linux without fuss. The latest version lets you boot into Linux from a CD-ROM, so you can try it out and confirm that all your hardware is compatible before you touch anything on your hard drive. I haven't tried 6.8.1 yet, but I have downloaded and used the 6.6.x binaries on an Ubuntu system back when the repositories were still using an earlier version. I strongly suspect that if you got hold of 6.8.1 packages that were built for Debian, they would also install on Ubuntu, but I haven't tried doing that yet. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe