I am not an Ubuntu user, but this thread seems to me a good opportunity to find out on the cheap whether certain preconceptions have a reason.
Somehow I got an idea in my head (marketing must work, probably in mysterious ways) that Ubuntu is a distro explicitly designed for every non-techie Tom, Dick, and Harry and their respective housewives, and the point is to dispel the impression that "Linux is for geeks". This may be correct or not. If this is the case, and given that the OP is trying to choose a platform for developers, can anyone say anything regarding Ubuntu's quality as a *development* platform? Is it just the same as any other distro? Is its choice and/or support for development tools better/worse? Is there any advantage or disadvantage to Ubuntu compared to XYZ distro specifically for developers? I can imagine a mindset including "99% of our target market don't care about compilers or linkers, so let's shove development tools somewhere into 'extras' and not even offer to install them out of the box, let's not update them as often as, say, browsers or email apps or multitouch drivers, etc.". I am not saying this is Ubuntu's mindset. I don't know, and I'll be happy to hear opinions. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
