On 9/9/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb / cesmail.net> wrote:
> What you *don't* want to do with CentOS is try to manage packages that
> aren't part of the distro... That way lies madness

Sorry for self-promotion. RubyWorks stack is trying to take care of
that problem for CentOS/RHEL.

As for development desktop, I'd say go with Ubuntu 7. It seems to be
the closest thing to a consumer-grade desktop in Linux world, which is
a good thing because you will not spend as much time as with some
other distros to make network, sound drivers and printers work.

Ubuntu doesn't compromise the benefits that you get from Linux as a
developer, either. Most important of which is speed. In my experience,
Ruby on Linux beats Ruby on Windows by a factor of 2 to 3 in practical
benchmarks (such as running automated tests for a Rails app, for
example).

-- 
Alexey Verkhovsky
CruiseControl.rb [http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com]
RubyWorks [http://rubyworks.thoughtworks.com]