From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-10T10:54:01+09:00
Subject: Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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Trans wrote:
> But seeing that distributions are a rather personal matter, I can't
> let an oportunity like this go by without plugging my "brand". I used
> to be a Debian man, but these days I'm a happy Arch user --she's lean
> and fast. I'll also put in a pitch for GoboLinux, which has a much
> more elegant design than most distros.

Isn't Arch a Debian derivative? There are lots of Debian derivatives,
but Ubuntu has somewhat eclipsed them by sheer marketing hype. But as
far as I can tell, it's fairly easy to make a "pure Debian" system as
fast and lean as any of the derivatives or any other distro.

The bridge you have to cross (eventually) is whether you ever want to do
kernel builds or recompile packages from source. RHEL and its rebuilds
actively *discourage* rebuilding the kernel. It's too easy to trash your
system that way. But rebuilding packages from source is easy on all the
major distros.

Or you could use Gentoo, where you *have* to recompile everything from
source. :)

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