[Product-Developers] Re: please recommend (or warn me off) a linux... [Solved - Thank You All]

[PythonHack]

Plonistas are the greatest!

- Unanimous votes all around for Ubuntu, so that was a no-brainer.

- I last night installed Dapper server(6.09.2) but replaced it today 
with Gutsy server (7.10) once I understood python2.5 could be readily 
circumvented (as noted below and/or by using chroot)

- Extra thanks to Gustavo Orrillo who promptly and gladly answered my 
email questions last night and today (without yelling out "April Fools" 
I should add)

- By the release of 8.04 I will probably be ready to upgrade or 
reinstall to the new LTS, which seems a really good idea.

- I had a couple snags (relatively minor) with Dapper, none with Gutsy.

I've been looking forward to this day for a long time.  Thanks everyone!
Ian



Carsten Senger wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> --On Montag, 31. März 2008 18:15 -0700 PythonHack 
> <pythonhack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you Derek and Tim
>>
>> Which version(s) of ubuntu are you using?
> 
> 
> I can also recommend Ubuntu and Debian. I'm using Ubuntu mostly now.
> 
> Someone mentioned ubuntu's Long Term Service (LTS) releases with 5 years of
> security-updates for LTS-Server. 6.06 was a LTS-Release, 8.04 LTS is
> scheduled for April 27. If you choose Ubuntu, use 8.04 Server LTS.
> 
> 
>> I am told 7.10 includes python
>> 2.5 so I will need to use chroot to set up a python 2.4 virtual
>> environment for zc.buildout (I intend to follow Martin Aspelli's book).
>> Is this how you handle it?
> 
> Ubuntu 8.04 comes with Python 2.4 and python 2.5, but you can run the
> bootstrap-script with 2.5 andpoint buildout to any python you want in
> ~/.buildout/default.py::
> 
>  [buildout]
>  executable = /home/cs/zope/_appserver/python2.4/bin/python
>  eggs-directory = /home/cs/.buildout/eggs
>  download-directory = /home/cs/.buildout/downloads
> 
> ..Carsten