Hello all, I'm in the market for a new laptop, and since I'll mainly be using it to hack on GHC and other Haskell projects, I thought I would ask what other people are using. One shouldn't really need a specialized machine for this, but since my ancient PowerBook G4 (where "ancient" is defined as "four years old") running Mac OS 10.2.1 has so far cost me several days of work trying to build the HEAD on it, I figured that it was both time to get something newer and a good time to figure out which OS/machine combination would save me that amount of work in the future. I'm trying to spend under $600, get as much RAM as possible, and not use a proprietary OS (this leaves me with */Linux or *BSD as the best options, but I have no idea which flavor will save me the most time spent configuring and reinstalling things -- that's my priority, as I've wasted enough of my life on that sort of activity already).
Hope this isn't too off-topic. Please reply to me rather than the list, though I can summarize if people are interested. Thanks, Kirsten -- Kirsten Chevalier* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Often in error, never in doubt "...real programmers often wear climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the machine room." -- anon. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc