On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com> wrote: > If you go for Linux, know that ubuntu would not be the first choice, ubuntu > prefers user experience over stability. Debian for instance is a distribution > largely used in the industry. >
What you'll generally find, actually, is that there's very little effective difference between one distro and another - there's a lot of usability difference between, say, Xfce and GNOME3 and Mate and Unity and so on, but you can get each of those on any Linux that supports them (personally, I like Xfce, which I use with Debian; you can get Xubuntu which comes with it). There's also a huge difference between Python 2.4 and Python 2.7, but beyond the fact that Red Hat 5 happens to ship with 2.4 and Debian Wheezy happens to ship with 2.7, there's no connection between that and your distro. Especially among the families of related distros (Debian and Red Hat being the patriarchs of huge family trees, and Ubuntu being head of a major sub-tree under Debian), you'll usually find there's not a huge amount of fundamental difference. So pick any distro that strikes your fancy! Try it out! If it doesn't work out, pick a different one. Start with one that your friends use (if you have any), that way you can get immediate help. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
