From: "Älphä Blüë" <jdezenzio@...>
Date: 2009-06-10T23:14:22+09:00
Subject: Re: centos and ruby 1.9.1 - possible?

Thanks for the feedback Robert.  My biggest issue (which I failed to 
list here) is I'm a windows system administrator.  I'm very windows 
oriented.  For instance, I have 1.9.1 and a full working mysql/sqlite3 
rails environment on windows and was able to get through every hoop and 
hurdle to do it.  I'm even halfway finished with a Vstudio 8 compile of 
1.9.1 on windows, (lacking about 6 more libaries at the moment).

When I go over to linux I feel like a hobo in the dark fishing for a 
wine bottle in an aligator pit.  I really hate using the terms "newbie" 
or "ignorant" or even "clueless" in the same terms where discussing my 
name and development.  But, I have to own up to the fact that my 
experience with linux is raw...

With windows I can turn around and tell you right from the start which 
OS's are great (what the pluses and cons are for them), what big issues 
you are going to face in terms of development with X product..  On 
Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, etc. are just names to me.  I couldn't 
begin to tell you which one is the best or what the pluses or cons are 
for each.  So, I just go by what my VPS provider gave me and try to work 
with what I have.

However, I think my biggest issue is just the learning curve.  I need a 
provider that is going to have all of the foundations in place for me to 
begin.  So far, Slicehost is my leanto on the provider.

I will more than likely stick with Ubuntu as my familiarity with apt, 
build from source, and package management on that distro is getting 
better.

On the flipside, my brother-in-law works for Red Hat and is a developer. 
I thought I could lean on him to help me with some issues but he knows I 
come from windows.  He's running as far away from me as possible..

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