From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T03:09:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Linux OS

On 2/6/07, Luke Ivers <technodolt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Other than that, I really don't have much experience with any Linux flavors.

This is a tough question.  Personally I think the best bet is go
install a few distros, and see which ones are easiest for the things
you need to do.   The distributions mainly differ in their style of
administration more so than anything else.

All distros have their idiosyncrasies, and depending on your tastes,
you may consider them features or bugs.

I tend to favor fast, simple distributions with package repositories
on the bleeding edge.  For me, ArchLinux fits the bill.   I think for
doing something like setting up apache + ruby/rails, pretty much any
distro will do for experimentation, though the debian based ones will
annoy you if you try to install ruby via apt.