I personally find Windows easier to use, however it is not a supported Hadoop production environment, and I *think* you have to use Cygwin under Windows even for development. Given that, if you want to use a Windows machine and performance is not a consideration, you could spin up a VirtualBox VM under Windows and install CentOS on it. John
From: Rajeev Yadav [mailto:rajeev_v...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 12:19 PM To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Hello and request some advice. Hi john, which would be a better option between Linux and windows from learning perspective of Hadoop? --- On Fri, 4/1/13, John Lilley <john.lil...@redpoint.net<mailto:john.lil...@redpoint.net>> wrote: From: John Lilley <john.lil...@redpoint.net<mailto:john.lil...@redpoint.net>> Subject: RE: Hello and request some advice. To: "user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>" <user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org>> Date: Friday, 4 January, 2013, 6:12 PM If you like RedHat, consider Centos also; it is a nearly-complete clone of the RHEL distro. John
