Hi Asa, Personally, I use ubuntu 12.04, and I run it native on my Thinkpad W520. I have a cheapo $300 windows laptop for the times I absolutely need windows in a non-VM (i.e. for some of the phone flashing tools).
I like ubuntu because its fairly popular, and the updating process is fairly painless. In particular, one of the reasons for picking 12.04 over any other version is that 12.04 is part of the LTS series (LTS = Long Term Support) See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS So this means that 12.04 will continue to receive updates for 5 years. With non-LTS variants, you'll only get updates for 9 months (perhaps longer, but not assured). So once I get a dev system working, I prefer to stay on it for a few years, and update when I feel like it, rather than being forced into it just because updates aren't available any more. So once 14.04 LTS comes out, I'll probably fire it up in a VM, and if I like it, then I'll consider updating my 12.04 to it. Dave Hylands ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Asa Dotzler" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:24:53 PM > Subject: [b2g] preferred gonk build platform > > I'm diving into Firefox OS as a long-time Mozillian but with very little > knowledge of the OS project. One of my early steps in learning is > getting set up to build Firefox OS for my ZTE Open device. > > I understand that we don't (and won't, thanks for the clarity, mwu) > support building all of Firefox OS on Windows because Gonk only builds > where Android builds which I understand to be only Mac and Linux. > > So, as a Windows user, I have a choice to VM a Linux distro or move to a > Mac. I intend to explore both of those options and document the process, > starting with Linux in a VM on Windows 8. > > For those of you who have been building Gonk regularly on Linux, what is > your preferred Linux distro and version and what is your view on the > stability of the build system on that OS and version. Also, if you use > Linux through a VM, which VM makes your life the easiest? Do any of them > have problems with connecting to devices over USB for example? > > The MDN doc[1] says we recommend Ubuntu 12.04 but it's not clear to me > if that is really the best play for a new contributor or if that was > just the popular Ubuntu release at the time the doc was created. > > - A > > [1] > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Requirements_for_Linux > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
