Again, I have to tell... Take a look at Ubuntu http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
When I get tired of MAC OSX, I installed the ppc version of Ubuntu on my IBook. It's great and it's based on Debian. On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:35 -0500, doktora v wrote: > I'm using SUSE with success on intel laptop and AMD desktop. You get > the best of both worlds: rpm and source. I can easily get the rpm > packages i need, and compile on my own the things that i can spend > time on (such as R 2.0.1 -- compiles out of the box on suse). > > BTW, I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience > with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week.... hope > R behaves... > > -- doktora > > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:05:54 -0800 (PST), bogdan romocea > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Before choosing a GNU/Linux distribution look into the package > > management issue. > > http://distrowatch.com/ > > I would suggest that you avoid all RPM-based distributions (Mandrake, > > Fedora, SuSE), and consider Debian (+ those based on it) & the > > source-based distributions (such as Gentoo). I've been using Mandrake > > for a couple of years but got tired of RPM. > > > > HTH, > > b. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas W Volscho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:24 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions? > > > > Dear List, > > I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it. I > > am trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for > > using R 2.0.1? > > > > Thank you in advance for your input, > > Tom Volscho > > > > ************************************ > > Thomas W. Volscho > > Graduate Student > > Dept. of Sociology U-2068 > > University of Connecticut > > Storrs, CT 06269 > > Phone: (860) 486-3882 > > http://vm.uconn.edu/~twv00001 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > __________________________________ > > > > Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html