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the best for developer is OSX



On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Tim Chase <django.us...@tim.thechases.com>wrote:

>
> > Looking for opinion of the best distro for a developer machine for
> > django.
> >
> > I'm on ubuntu now, its going ok. I'm having keyboard issues, and
> > wondering if I should put the time in on fixing it, or just ditch it
> > for say, pc-bsd, if thats what the cool django kids are using.
>
> I've done Django development on multiple OSes and found 3 tiers
> of experience:
>
> Top Tier: any Linux or BSD I've played with (Debian, Ubuntu,
> OpenBSD).  I expect other variants will be equally facile (Red
> Hat, Suse, Slack, Gentoo, PC BSD, FreeBSD, etc)
>
> Mid Tier:  Mac OS X -- Doable, but a few more hoops to jump
> through.  Easiest since Python2.5's added built-in sqlite3 which
> previously you had to build yourself
>
> Bottom Tier:  Win32.  It's feasible (especially once Python2.5
> added sqlite3), but I've found this a notably more painful
> experience than on the other two tiers of platforms.
>
>
> I haven't tinkered with Solaris in *years* so I don't know
> whether that would be top- or middle-tier.
>
>
> However, once you've got the base configuration done, development
> is pretty easy no matter where you do it.
>
> My $0.02
>
> -tim
>
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