2010/6/3 Radek Kotlarek <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> I think it smells like an internet flame, but my preferables for
> development would be Ubuntu or Fedora.
> For production I would recommend Ubuntu/Fedora or OpenBSD/Red Hat depending
> on security required.
> Personally I am seriously considering Mac as development platform.
>
>
> Regards,
> Radek Kotlarek
>
>
> On 4 June 2010 00:22, kg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> This a somewhat trivial question but I'm wondering what the choice
>> distro is for a development and possibly production environment.
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks for any info :)
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Hey,

Whatever happened to bottom-posting.

Macs do quite good as development platform, if you're not too interested in
the gory system details. Ubuntu is also a nice Linux tailored towards people
new to the Linux world, and hides most of the administrative complexity
behind pretty dialogs and automations. I use Arch myself, for production and
development.

Anyhow, it's very subjective. There's nothing else than trial and error to
find your fitting system. Bear in mind, that when everything is said and
done, Linux is Linux, whatever the name they put on. When you take the fancy
ubuntu stuff off, it's no different from a slackware system. Just take any
prejudices and drop them in the trash can, and then set up a weekend to try
a few distros, try and set up a simple server with each, see if you can find
documentation on securing the systems, etc. Take your time, and take notes
of what you like or dislike of each.

It took me several years to finally settle on Arch, because it's not really
for novices, but once you know some linux-fu, an advanced system that
doesn't hide anything is what you really want. At least, it went that way
for me. Best luck!

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