Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "alex23" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hosting providers and distro > > > makers aren't concerned over whether Python works. They > > > care if C, C++, Java, PHP, and Perl work, but not Python or LISP. > > > Ask them. > > > > Do you have any real experience with recent linux distros? Or with any > > _real_ hosting providers? > > Care to name a "real" hosting provider that cares whether Python works? The first name that comes to mind is xs4all, the major Dutch provider (they've even got their own Wikipedia entry!-) -- they've long offered outstanding sponsorship to the Python community, hosting lots of services for us, btw. But the OP's mention of "distro" ain't even funny -- ever since RedHat's original implementation of RPM (in Python), ever more Linux distros are positively _fanatical_ about Python. Ubuntu, for example, has as its BDFL Mark Shuttleworth, who (since, as he explains, he made his fortune thanks to Python -- Python's what allowed him to build Thawte, which he later sold for mucho dinero) is an unabashed fan of Python; the "XO" (nee "One Laptop Per Child", OLPC, and once known as the "$100 laptop") uses Python as its preferred (only?-) application language, and it's slated to be the most widely distributed Python distro if it hits even half of its ambitious target-numbers... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
