On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:49 AM, kaffeepause73 <kaffeepause73@yahoo.de> wrote:

Its also worth looking at Arch Linux - they have a rolling release and are
therefore
very up to date and have from first glance a very good haskell integration.
The community
is excellent as well.

Arch Linux is my development distribution of choice. At home, I set up an Arch linux "server" running essentially nothing but VirtualBox and SSHd. I also set up a cluster of Arch Linux based virtual machines to do actual development on, administer the internal network, serve email, etc.

I switched back to debian squeeze however, because of its stability - update
seldomly cause trouble.
With the rolling release u need to create urself a way to roll back in case
of problems.
On debian I'm using cabal to get the libraries I need, without problems so
far.

Exactly. And I never did find a satisfactory way to do that on my laptop.

The only reason I'm using Ubuntu on this laptop is because of Arch's rolling release model. I had Arch on here, but at some point, a kernel upgrade caused a major regression. All my important data was backed up, so I nuked Arch and tried Ubuntu (with a 6+ month old kernel). It worked. I'd rather be using Arch, but this hardware imposes limitations.