Re: [Haskell-cafe] Choice of Linux distro redux

On 22 June 2011 08:34, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 18:26, John Wagner wrote:

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When you say that support for GHCi is in general best among the Linux distros (unordered) "Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing)", is Ubuntu to be inferred from Debian, or is

The former; for most purposes Ubuntu is Debian with a modified release cycle.

Though I've heard of a lot of problems of people trying to install GHC and associated libraries on Ubuntu (including a lot of first year uni students... >_> ). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com