<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com">ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 19 June 2011 13:48, Tom Murphy <<a href="mailto:amindfv@gmail.com">amindfv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi List,<br>
> If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as a<br>
> Haskell devel platform (I am), what would you all recommend?<br>
<br>
</div>In no particular order, the following seem to have good Linux support:<br>
Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing).<br></blockquote><div><br></div>My experience is that OpenSuSE is not quite up-to-date, so I'd recommend going with Ubuntu if you can make the choice now. They seem to have the 2011 platform,<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/haskell-platform">http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/haskell-platform</a></div><div><br></div><div>For non-Haskell concerns, it seems Ubuntu is nice, since it's built on Debian, but is maybe a little more user-friendly (in community and software choices). I found Gentoo not so user-friendly ... I am not one to enjoy spending time installing operating systems, or building things from source, even if they run faster [wrt. AMD vs. Intel gcc build options] :).</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>cheers,<br clear="all"></div></div><div>Nicholas — <a href="https://ntung.com/" target="_blank">https://ntung.com</a> — 4432-nstung</div></div>