Re: [Haskell-cafe] best Linux for GHC?
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 13:36:13 +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Ketil, Monday, November 13, 2006, 10:45:59 AM, you wrote: My friend offered me 3 variants: SuSe, Fedora Core 5, free variant of RedHat (i can't remember its name, may be Ubuntu?) CentOS, perhaps? It is usually good advice to choose whatever your friends are using, thanks to everyone who answered my question! as you say, FC and CentOS are not ideal for me. Gentoo is too good for me, it is for unix geeks while i just don't have resources to play one more Game. i think that i will install it on my next box of remaining, Ubuntu has widest support here while SuSe is favourite of my friend. one thing that i like in suse is that it uses the same RPMs as RedHat and RPMs is widely used for packaging software available via internet. Is Ubuntu supports RPMs too? I think it's widely regarded as a Bad Idea to mix packages between distributions. I would suggest Ubuntu (or Debian Sid if you are interested in getting newer versions of GHC). I think you'd find it difficult to find software that wasn't already in Ubuntu's multiverse repository. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. `In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.' -- The Book getting all nostalgic. pgpxFoyAG5xw8.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] best Linux for GHC?
as RedHat and RPMs is widely used for packaging software available via internet. Is Ubuntu supports RPMs too? I think it's widely regarded as a Bad Idea to mix packages between distributions. I would suggest Ubuntu (or Debian Sid if you are interested in getting newer versions of GHC). I think you'd find it difficult to find software that wasn't already in Ubuntu's multiverse repository. Please note: Debian does support RPM, either as RPM's, or by conversion (through the alien utility) to DEB's. My experience with such mixing is that it usually goes fine without any problems, although now and again, a bit of tinkering is necessary. Murray Gross ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] best Linux for GHC?
Hello haskell-cafe, Now i'm consider installation of some Linux version at my box. My friend offered me 3 variants: SuSe, Fedora Core 5, free variant of RedHat (i can't remember its name, may be Ubuntu?) what may be best for GHC-based development? in particular, i want to compile Haskell itself i suspect that it is a really dumb question, and GHC will work great just with any linux i can find :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] best Linux for GHC?
bulat.ziganshin: Hello haskell-cafe, Now i'm consider installation of some Linux version at my box. My friend offered me 3 variants: SuSe, Fedora Core 5, free variant of RedHat (i can't remember its name, may be Ubuntu?) what may be best for GHC-based development? in particular, i want to compile Haskell itself i suspect that it is a really dumb question, and GHC will work great just with any linux i can find :) -- Gentoo or Debian, I suspect, since then you get the #haskell-gentoo team, and Igloo, keeping things up to date :) -- Don ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] best Linux for GHC?
I use Ubuntu, which is a flavor of Debian. It was pretty easy to install, and it's intended to be friendly to new Linux users, while not getting in the way of people who want to do more advanced things. My only complaint Haskell-wise is that GHC 6.6 hasn't made it into the package system yet; the latest available from the package system is 6.4.1, but you could always download 6.6 and compile it yourself if necessary. --Grady Lemoine On 11/12/06, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello haskell-cafe, Now i'm consider installation of some Linux version at my box. My friend offered me 3 variants: SuSe, Fedora Core 5, free variant of RedHat (i can't remember its name, may be Ubuntu?) what may be best for GHC-based development? in particular, i want to compile Haskell itself i suspect that it is a really dumb question, and GHC will work great just with any linux i can find :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
