On 5 October 2011 at 21:54, Simon Urbanek wrote: | Ubuntu is currently the most popular and works out of the box on most machines. Personally, I prefer Debian on servers, but there is not a big difference.
<off-topic alert> Ubuntu also comes in at least four flavours: ubuntu (Gnome look), kubuntu (KDE), xubuntu (XFCE) and 'server'. So it is easy to overlook the server product which is also excellent. If you install it, it start with just six or seven processes running -- perfect for customization on top of something truly barebones. And the end of the day it depends on what update cycle you want to subscribe too. The bi-annual Ubuntu releases are nice. I also _really_ like Debian testing which is like a rolling 'current/fresh/yet stable' release. CRAN uses that for a few machines, and I can never remember if rforge and r-forge, respectively, are on stable or testing. I often use Ubuntu and just re-build whatever I need never versions of by rebuilding the packages locally in 'package building chroot' on Ubuntu. Best of both worlds for me. If there are follow-ups, they should probably go to r-sig-debian. </off-topic alert> Best, Dirk -- New Rcpp master class for R and C++ integration is scheduled for San Francisco (Oct 8), more details / reg.info available at http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/products/training/public/rcpp-master-class.php ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
