Ubuntu, as other have said is by far the most popular but it's all higly dependent on what you want it for. I've used;
- Debian, not pretty but rock solid (though some packages are much older than those you'll find on Ubuntu - nothing to stop you installing them from an Ubuntu repo though); - CentOs, purely in the shell, never the desktop. Based on Redhat and I believe still geared towards web hosting; - Ubuntu, the prettiest I've used. Based on Debian but provides the more cutting edge packages; - RedHat Enterprise, just don't do it to yourself! - MintOS, based on Ubuntu (and ultimately Debian) the differences being much of a muchness. The choice ultimately comes down to how pretty you want it to be and either RedHat based or Debian based - unless you go with FreeBSD which I didn't like at all. Regardless, I wouldn't bother with a dualboot. Not since seamless mode was introduced into VirtualBox. In my experience it works very well and can be easily set up with Vagrant. On which note, Vagrant could actually aid your choosing as you can set up and tear down any/all of them at will. I hope you find what you're looking for - it's a tough one with all the options on the table. Good luck! On Tue, 26 May 2015 at 11:14 Sean Bamforth <[email protected]> wrote: > Ubuntu is the most popular distro, so probably the best option. > > If you just needed the CLI, then Amazon Web Services would be a good > option. You can spin up and destroy Linux servers as and when you use > them. > > Personally - I use http://nitrous.io . It provides a web based linux cli > with an editor. > There's also > - terminal.com > - codenvy > > and a host of solutions that do things this way. > > > > Colin Kenyon wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I know this is not directly Ruby related, but a bit of advice would be > welcome, and, I use the term respectfully, you're the probably the best > informed geeks I know, not to mention the only ones!! > > > > I'm looking at installing Linux on my PC, and trying to figure out the > best flavour. > > > > Ubuntu stands out, naturally. However, it occurs to me that there may be > other platforms that could stick a GUI on top? > > > > I've used UNIX ages ago so I'm not afraid of the CLI, that's one of the > considerations I'm looking at. I think that it could be useful to learn > more about Linux by being able to use the CLI? > > > > Let's not worry about "how" I'm going to do this, just the "what" is > good enough for now. > > > > For the record, I've got a 250MB SSD and a 2TB hard drive installed, > running Win7. > > > > I considered reconfiguring so that the hard drive is C: and giving that > to Windows, then letting Linux have the luxury of the SSD, but all that is > a maybe. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Colin Kenyon. > > > > -- > Sean Bamforth > p: +44 (0)7802 653722 > w: http://threeparams.com > e: [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
