[GRASSLIST:9720] RE: which linux distribution?

[Aaron Racicot]

Robert,
I use Fedora on all of my server boxes and have had great success with
GRASS/MAPSERVER/QGIS/POSTGIS etc.  I even just recently installed Fedora
Core 4 on a new Dell 9300 laptop and installation has been going very
smoothly.  If you decide to go with Fedora let me know, I can probably
help you through some of the installation if you have problems.

Aaron

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-GRASSLIST at baylor.edu [mailto:owner-GRASSLIST at baylor.edu] On
Behalf Of Robert Kuszinger
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:43 AM
To: GRASSLIST at baylor.edu
Subject: [GRASSLIST:9715] which linux distribution?



Hi all!

I'm planning to put a second HDD into my notebook for using grass as it
seems to be
much more up-to-date and better on Linux than under Cygwin (which is
good for many things, really, and good to have, but I better use Linux
for production)

My question is, which Linux distribution to choose?

I have Debian but that is versions back for stability (i do understand)
and
if I switch to the unstable tree in sources.list it starts to create
strange links
(if I install a library, it uninstalls another and changes version and I
loose an important package,
etc)

What do you use for compiling/development, for example? Which one is the
best.
My main target application is GRASS, so this is the main point.

thanks

Robert