I typically use a Mac (I love it) with Aquamacs, LaTeX, and R, and
recently started using Linux Ubuntu as well. Ubuntu is the only
distribution I have ever tried, and I really like it. I like it so
much that I would have made my switch complete, but cannot find
replacement for the PDF cut and paste functionality of the Mac.
Ubuntu has amazing built in upgrade GUI's and other bells and whistles
that a Mac user like me has come to depend on.
Hank
On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Douglas Bates wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM, steven wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Dear all;
I'm planning to install Linux on my computer to run R (I'm bored of
W..XP). However, I haven't used Linux before and I would appreciate,
if possible, suggestions/comments about what could be the best option
install, say Fedora, Ubuntu or OpenSuse which to my impression are
the
most popular ones (at least on the R-help lists). The computer is a
PC
desktop with 4GB RAM and Intel Quad-Core Xeon processor and will be
used only to run R.
Ah yes, we haven't had a good flame war for a long time. Let's start
discussing the relative merits of various Linux distributions. That
should heat things up a bit.
I can only speak about Ubuntu. I have used it exclusively for several
years now and find it to be superb. In my opinion it is easy to
install and maintain and has very good support for R (take a bow,
Dirk).
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