I am a data engineer. Most time works around Hadoop, Spark, Streaming, MQ, R and Python stuff. I have my personal Mac, but want to learn more on Linux dev and ops. Thanks.
Piper On Friday, December 3, 2021, Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 07:56:31PM +0800, Piper H wrote: > > For debian and ubuntu, which one should I choose as my personal > > development system? > > Thanks. > > > > What are you developing _in_ ? Debian stable is pretty much unconditionally > stable and includes huge amounts of software. On the other hand, some > teams develop only on Ubuntu - it's not a binary "either/or" and the > skills > you learn on Debian are transferrable to Ubuntu. > > More details needed :) > > All the very best, as ever, > > Andy Cater > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 7:02 PM Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: > > > > > Thanos Katsiolis <kls.tha...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > The reasons I chose them is that Debian is considered a stable and > > > reliable OS (the policy of the OS is not to > > > > include as many and as much quickly as possible new features), and > that > > > it has a large and dependable community. > > > > > > Isn't that enough? I guess I'd say the policy of Debian is that it > > > works. Personally, I had used Linux off and on in the 1990s but there > > > were issues. I was otherwise a Unix user in school and work, mostly > > > Sun's Solaris but also Digital and HP and some others I don't remember > > > any more. > > > > > > A friend and colleague recommended Debian around late '90s and I > > > installed Debian, 2.0 Hamm I think. It just worked, as in I ran the > same > > > installation on my ever morphing desktop computer for almost a decade > > > until I made the switch to 64-bit. I guess that "new" 64-bit > > > installation is now over a decade old then. Updates work and it does't > > > barf when I change hardware. > > > > > > For sure I have other computers these days and my desktop alone has > > > Windows 10 and Arch Linux in addition to Debian. But mostly I use > > > the desktop and the Debian on it. > > > > > > > >
