Uhm... Well, you can talk to Microsoft and Hortonworks about Microsoft as a platform.
Depending on the power of your laptop, you could create a VM and run hadoop in a pseudo distributed mode there. You could also get an Amazon Web Services account and build a small cluster via EMR... In terms of OS, Centos is free and its a solid platform for Hadoop. You could then download Cloudera's CHDx and run it in a pseudo distributed cluster on a single node. Lots of options... On Jan 4, 2013, at 1:27 PM, John Lilley <john.lil...@redpoint.net> wrote: > 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> wrote: > > From: John Lilley <john.lil...@redpoint.net> > Subject: RE: Hello and request some advice. > To: "user@hadoop.apache.org" <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 >
