which "flavor" of linux is best for MS?

[Nikos]

Fernando Simon wrote:

> 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.

I'll second that for Slackware...IMHO, it is the most "complete/correct" 
distro when it comes to library compatibilities, version etc...

regards,

nikos

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