"Pete McBreen, McBreen.Consulting" wrote:

> Anybody know what it would take to get Ruby into the standard GNU Linux
> distributions?
>
> I'm interested because I'm looking for a web hosting provider that
> supports the use of Ruby. There is plenty of Perl/Python support, but
> I've not found Ruby yet.
>
> Interestingly though, I found a provider that supports whatever is on
> the standard RedHat Linux distribution. But Ruby doesn't appear to be on
> RedHat 6.2.
>
> Would getting on the GNU Linux distributions be a good thing for Ruby?
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Pete

Ruby is on the Debian distribution -- version 1.4.3 is on Debian 2.2r2
(Potato), the official stable release. Ruby 1.6.1 is on Woody, the unstable
release.

If you get 'alien' you can convert the .deb to .rpm packages.

Larry