Anything that can comfortably run a JRE would do. I believe most use Ubuntu VMs but really, any fairly-modern-distro should suffice.
My personal favorite would be ArchLinux (cause am comfortable on that). On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:17 AM, web service <wbs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > what is the smallest linux system/distros to run hadoop ? I would want to > run small linux vms and run jobs on them. > -mac -- Harsh J