On Thu, 01 Oct 2009, Mark Deardorff wrote: > Sorry for butting in here but I have a question you can probably answer for > me. What is a better installation of UNIX for software development and > general scientific and math computing? OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Redhat or some > other? I am a Windows(ze) 7 user (well, as of 10/22/09) and want to learn > Linux (used to be a Unix user). What will be better for me? I am running an > AMD Phenom 64 which is a quad core box. Thanks, somuch, in advance. (Alo > what is a good IDE?)
For new linux users, I recommend ubuntu, it just work out of box. (As testified by Alex's recent experience.) -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
