Ethan Furman wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm going to setup a few linux systems for testing (probably three) as > well as the three FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and (possibly) NetBsd. Oh, and > Windows. ;) > > Any recommendations on which linuces to pick?
What are you testing? Is this for buildbots? Are you testing consumer-level software? Who is your software aimed at? Depending on the answer to that, normally I would say one each from the Debian and Redhat families, plus one other. E.g. pick one from each: (1) Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint (2) RHEL (if you can afford the licence fee), Centos, Fedora (3) Gentoo, Arch Linux, Suse, Slackware Some additional thoughts: I presume you're using VMs rather than six physical machines. What, no Apple Mac? Keep in mind that Arch uses Python 3 for the system python. Also keep in mind that Arch is generally considered to be so far out on the bleeding edge that even Slackware users consider them nuts. :) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
