Seth Gordon wrote:

Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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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.

Well, we're testing out ghc-6.8.1 on the Gentoo-Haskell overlay right now... but it's probably not as good a distribution for a newbie :p -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com