[R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

[doktora v]

I'm using SUSE with success on intel laptop and AMD desktop. You get
the best of both worlds: rpm and source. I can easily get the rpm
packages i need, and compile on my own the things that i can spend
time on (such as R 2.0.1 -- compiles out of the box on suse).

BTW, I'm looking to switch to Mac platform. Anyone had any experience
with that? I'm expecting on a power G4 laptop later this week.... hope
R behaves...

-- doktora


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:05:54 -0800 (PST), bogdan romocea
<br44114 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Before choosing a GNU/Linux distribution look into the package
> management issue.
> http://distrowatch.com/
> I would suggest that you avoid all RPM-based distributions (Mandrake,
> Fedora, SuSE), and consider Debian (+ those based on it) & the
> source-based distributions (such as Gentoo). I've been using Mandrake
> for a couple of years but got tired of RPM.
> 
> HTH,
> b.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas W Volscho [mailto:THOMAS.VOLSCHO at huskymail.uconn.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 3:24 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] switching to Linux, suggestions?
> 
> Dear List,
> I have acquired a new desktop and wanted to put a free OS on it.  I
> am trying Fedora Core 1, but not sure what the best Linux OS is for
> using R 2.0.1?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your input,
> Tom Volscho
> 
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