[Rails] Re: Best Linux distibution for ruby on rails developement?

[carmen]

> I am on Kanotix linux since the first distribution was released by Kano.
> However I am tired of the "if it can go wrong it will go wrong on 
> Kanotix" pattern.

yeah if YaST doesnt do something right on SuSE, good luck.. or if the 
package you want isnt in debian/ubuntu, youre in LinuxFromScratch 
territory..

> Please recommend a distribution that by your experience is best for ruby 
> on rails development and need no hour-long tweacks for even "simple" 
> tasks.

ironically i'd say gentoo is the best here. since tweakers use it, the 
default configuration is the most pain-free and working around. i think 
tweakers also use arch-linux, although i havent tried that since it is 
primarily binary-based and ix86 only last i looked..

its going to be a bit weird on any of them, in that you'll likely get a 
hodge podge of stuff installed via gems, installed via the OS package 
system, and installed via SVN/tarballs/etc. Gentoo mitigates this a bit 
by using portage as a frontend which just calls gems for most things, 
but with the added bonus of it being tracked alongside eveyrthing else 
youve installed..it similarly integrates well with CPAN..

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