On Feb 16, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Ubuntu is not in the running because it does not have a "developer"
baseline that's useful. Try as I might to like Ubuntu, getting all
the dev tools installed is a PITA.
But Ubuntu can pull Debian repositories... so doesn't that just make
its developer tools Debian++? Or is Debian a bad baseline?
Either way, there are currently two important OSes:
1) The dom0 OS
2) The OS to run what Sparky is currently running
For #1, I'd say it makes sense to pick the distro that makes a Xen
install easiest out of the box. My first choice would probably be
CentOS 5, but since that's not out yet... Ubuntu 6.10 may very well
be a good choice due to the available Xen packages in its
repository. Developer tools wouldn't be much of an issue on the host
OS would they?
For #2, I think it would make best sense to continue running Debian
Stable, just as we do now.
Thus, I'd use OpenBSD. ;)
Well from the standpoint of easy yet complete Xen integration, as
well as developer tools, Gentoo might actually be worth considering.
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