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[Cees de Groot]

My personal preference is Debian, because of the integrated APT packaging  
system. If you need something (say, a C compiler) you can just say  
'apt-get install gcc' and it'll suck everything necessary in and install  
it. Keeping a tab on security upgrades is as easy as typing 'apt-get  
update; apt-get upgrade'. Also, the JVDS install of Debian is only 126Mb.

RedHat/Fedora and SuSE are bloated, so half your disk quota will be filled  
with stuff you won't ever need.

Gentoo is said to be even kewler than Debian, but IIRC it is a  
source-based distro (where you download sources and compile them locally  
instead of downloading binary packages) it is likely to eat up a lot more  
space than Debian.

Slackware is one of the original distros - I used it in '94 or  
thereabouts. Since then, it seems no-one really developed the 'meta stuff'  
(packaging tools), the whole system looks awfully primitive. One customer  
of mine uses it and I recommended they move to Debian.

Squeak will install just fine on any of them by downloading the  
distribution archives, unpacking them in a temporary location, and running  
the supplied install script.


Note that the hardest part will be the necessary scripting to keep Squeak  
running as a server image, the decisions to go headless+management  
interface or headful+VNC, etcetera. I am very much for kickstarting a  
project that collects some scripts around these alternatives.

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:58:54 -0500, John Pierce  
<john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:36:17 +0100, Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com>  
>> wrote:
>> I'd take any of the VDS/VPS providers out there. You have your Linux box
>> with root access, and costs are constantly falling, <snip>
>
> Coming from largely a Windows background, which Linux distro is the
> easiest to setup Squeak on?  For instance, JVDS.com has the following
> distros available:
>
> RedHat 7.3, 8.0, and 9.0
> Fedora Core 1
> Debian
> Suse
> Gentoo
> Slackware
>