On Sep 9, 2:29 pm, "Slavo Furman" <sla... / gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I apologize forward for somewhat dumb question...
>
> I am just another programmer whose (relatively successful) ASP.NET career
> was somewhat disrupted by encountering Ruby/Ruby on Rails few months ago. So
> far I learned and used Ruby just on Windows, but now I decided o give it try
> also on Linux.
>
> So, what Linux distribution would you recommend for programmer who have
> master degree in CS, 10+ years experience as achitect/programmer on Windows
> (C++, C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server), good understanding of system programming
> concepts, but no Linux experience? I look forward to using Linux mainly for
> learning more Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming.

If you are new to Linux, Ubuntu or Kubuntu is very likely the best
place to start these days.

But seeing that distributions are a rather personal matter, I can't
let an oportunity like this go by without plugging my "brand". I used
to be a Debian man, but these days I'm a happy Arch user --she's lean
and fast. I'll also put in a pitch for GoboLinux, which has a much
more elegant design than most distros.

T.