Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best Linux Distro for >>=

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:

On 19 June 2011 13:48, Tom Murphy wrote:

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Hi List, If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend?

In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support: Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing).

My experience is that OpenSuSE is not quite up-to-date, so I'd recommend going with Ubuntu if you can make the choice now. They seem to have the 2011 platform, http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/haskell-platform For non-Haskell concerns, it seems Ubuntu is nice, since it's built on Debian, but is maybe a little more user-friendly (in community and software choices). I found Gentoo not so user-friendly ... I am not one to enjoy spending time installing operating systems, or building things from source, even if they run faster [wrt. AMD vs. Intel gcc build options] :). cheers, Nicholas — https://ntung.com — 4432-nstung