[R] switching to Linux, suggestions?

[Ulises M. Alvarez]

Again, I have to tell...

Take a look at Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

When I get tired of MAC OSX, I installed the ppc version of Ubuntu on my
IBook. It's great and it's based on Debian. 


On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:35 -0500, doktora v wrote:
> 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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