Whatever you use most in your company . . . or if you are going to be the admin, whatever you are most comfortable with.
Both work well pretty much out of the box. For instance, I use mostly Windows . . . Why? IT has our network locked down pretty well . . . for both Linux and Windows. But I personally have more support from my IT department on Windows permission issues than for Linux permission issues . . . so I prefer Windows. Notice that Jenkins isn't a part of the decision at all . . . has more to do with my environment and NOT religious wars over OS. The tools set might also be a factor . . . for instance I am starting to pick up some Linux users because the ARM compiler is 10% faster on Linux . . . again, Jenkins is not the issue . . . other factors are. Frank P.S. Reading ahead I did see someone preferred Linux because of Windows 258 character limit on file paths . . . VALID CONCERN . . . we've work around most of those issues at this point, but if your builds have deeply nested directory structures and/or extremely long files names . . . Windows can give you problems. This occurred for us because one developer decided to use the file name as documentation and created a filename in our Source Depot that was over 140 characters long . . . ugh . . . but that is a windows issue . . . not a Jenkins issue per se. From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Levin, Ilya Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 3:35 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Unix or Windows Hello, I have a simple question, what OS should I Choose when installing Jenkins ? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
