My vote goes to ubuntu. I've been using it for a few years and before that I tried a wide variety of distros. Ubuntu has a lot of polish, takes 20 minutes to install, and is just a really nice distribution overall. Things just work. Ubuntu is debian based so if you chose against ubuntu my second vote goes for debian. 
<br><br>Many of the haskell packages including darcs, ghc, and well over 100 other packages (mostly libraries) are in the package manager ready to be installed. <br><br>--ryan <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/22/07, 
<b class="gmail_sendername">David Cabana</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:dcabana@nc.rr.com">dcabana@nc.rr.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a spare Windows machine I want to put to better use.&nbsp;&nbsp;I want<br>to turn it into a Haskell hacking box, and was wondering whether any<br>particular *nix or BSD distribution is best (or worst) suited for<br>this.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any thoughts?
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