which "flavor" of linux is best for MS?

[Fernando Simon]

Hi Sergio,
    Here in G10 we already used many releases in these couple years. We 
already used Red Hat 7, 8 and 9. Conectiva 9 and 10. SuSe 9.2 and 9.3. 
Slackware 9 and 10.
    For all releases above we used with Mapserver+Oracle 
Spatial+PostGis+W*S without problems. In my desktop, until the end of 
the last year, I used Slackware, I believe that it's the best release if 
you want to do everything by scratch. Now I'm using Suse 9.3 without 
problems, very stable and secure.
    I believe that it's very difficult to appoint the best release. I 
prefer to compile everything by myself 
(gd+gdal+PostgreSQL+OGR+Mapserver.....), so for me the best releases: 
SuSe and Slackware. All the releases that you post in your e-mail can be 
used for Mapserver, but my vote is for SuSe.
    Thanks.


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Fernando Simon
Mapserver and Oracle Spatial developer
G10 - Laboratorio de Computacao Aplicada - Brazil
http://www.univali.br/g10 - UNIVALI/CTTMAR
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Sergio Lopez wrote:

>Hello:
>I´m a Windows user who wants to move to the Linux world. I want to install
>linux in a box in order to use it in mapserver applications development,
>but I know there´s a lot of versions of Linux around (Debian, Fedora,
>SUSE, etc)
>By checking this list I´ve seen most popular flavors would be Debian and
>Fedora, but I want to know from your experience which one do you recommend
>to use as server for Mapserver applications.
>By the way, I already have SUSE 9.2 installation CDs, so this would be my
>first choice, but I want to hear from you before to proceed.
>Thanks in advance.
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