linux distros

breakfastcereal · Post by **breakfastcereal** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:42 am

sorry to ask a stupid question for my first post, but I searched and didn't exactly find a similar topic. I'm building myself an extra computer to run linux, and learn a bit of programming. My goal is to make simple PSP programs, but my c/c++ is pretty limited, so I have some learning to do.

My question is what linux distro is good for coding? I'm not very experienced with linux, I've booted up knoppix for awhile but I was just using KDE desktop so its pretty basic. I was probably going to install Debian or Slackware later today. Just thought I'd get some suggestions before I get started.

wulf · Post by **wulf** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:06 pm

pretty much any install will be fine for deving, as long as you can compile stuff..
personally I suggest debian as it's very easy to get new progs and stuff to work without a lot of dependancy headaches.. synapticpackage manager is where it's at..
.later.

Agoln · Post by **Agoln** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:12 pm

If your new, then I'd start with any of these (in this order):

Ubuntu (It's what I use)
Fedora Core 4 (The home-user redhat)
Suse
Mandrake

Those are good first-time-linux distro's, get you use to using a linux box, w/o a lot of frustrations.

All of these packages have good package management.

breakfastcereal · Post by **breakfastcereal** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:34 am

Thanks for the tips guys. Now have mandrake up and running, and am going through all the generic newbie troubles of installing software and such :P I will have have to check out ubuntu, I had never heard of it. Thanks again, and watch our for my sweeeet PSP progs....sometime next year ;)

edit: <off topic> nice avatar! Trogdor was a man.... </off>

breakfastcereal · Post by **breakfastcereal** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:16 pm

sry to dig up my own thread, but I'd just like to mention that I've switched to debian, and I love it. It is a bit more difficult and progress comes more slowly since I have to ask google about alot of problems, but I'm overall learning more, and finding out that apt-get is a magic word. I'd just like to suggest debian to anybody reading this even if your new, at least for the learning experience. Don't be afraid, Google knows everything ;)