Seth Gordon wrote: > Peter Verswyvelen wrote: > > 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 cant 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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