e: Favorite flavor of Linux? (for python or anything else)

[Michael Williams]

I'd say Ubuntu.  It has one of the most intuitive package management  
systems, and manual installation of software seems to work very well.

On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:00 AM, python-list-request at python.org wrote:

> From: "Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com>
> Date: December 5, 2005 12:56:13 AM EST
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Favorite flavor of Linux? (for python or anything else)
> Reply-To: mcfletch at vrplumber.com
>
>
> Brett Hoerner wrote:
>
>> I have to add another vote for Gentoo.
>>
> And another here.  Portage (the Python-coded package-management  
> system) does a very good job.  I tend to use fairly conservative  
> settings as well, Gentoo's just nice and stable as a general rule,  
> I don't care about ultimate speed or tweaking the code much, I just  
> find that building everything from source (but without the  
> headaches) tends to make things work together well.
>
> As far as Python support goes, Gentoo tends to work very well for  
> Python packages, Pygame and wxPython on AMD64, for instance,  
> install flawlessly out of the box (where others seem to have  
> problems)... in fact most of the major packages install reliably.   
> There's a key note that you might miss regarding the Python  
> updating process, namely that you have to run python-updater to  
> rebuild all of your packages for the new Python version, but once  
> you know that, Pythonicity in Gentoo is pretty straightforward.
>
> Anyway, just a vote that's trying very hard to keep on-topic for  
> the python list,
> Mike
>
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