I have supported Hadoop on Red Hat, CentOS, SuSE, and Debian (300 node cluster on Debian) all without OS related issues. IMHO I would pick the OS that has a packing system you are most comfortable with.
Allan On Oct 30, 2013 8:11 AM, "Sharad Agarwal" <[email protected]> wrote: > We run on ubuntu with absolutely no issues. > > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Joe Doherty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > My first attempt at installing Hadoop so be gentle! > > > > I was wondering what flavour of Linux is best recommended / supported for > > Hadoop. > > > > I hope this isn't a stupid question but being a newbie I'd rather start > > with a recommended foundation. > > > > Quite excited at taking this journey! > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Joe > > > > >
