Best Linux Distro for Erlang Devel

[Tom Murphy]

Hi *,
     (I posted a very similar question to a Haskell list yesterday)
  If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as an
Erlang devel platform (completeness of base, packages, stability,
support, robustness), what would you all recommend?

Thanks for your time!
Tom
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[Mihai Balea]

On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Tom Murphy wrote:

> Hi *,
>     (I posted a very similar question to a Haskell list yesterday)
>  If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as an
> Erlang devel platform (completeness of base, packages, stability,
> support, robustness), what would you all recommend?

Packages that come with most popular distros tend to be outdated, and in some cases they even package unstable versions of the OTP environment (would really like to know what happened in the mind of the person who packaged R14A for Debian Squeeze)
End result is that you will probably end up building from source anyway.
So if you'll do that anyway, you might as well use the same platform you will use for deployment, which is usually either Debian or Redhat (or CentOS)

Mihai
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[Wilson MacGyver]

I use Fedora for both haskell and erlang. Fedora is fairly good about
keeping up to
date with both haskell platform and erlang providing you keep Fedora up to date.

For example, the current Fedora 15 has Erlang R14B02. and haskell platform
2011.2.0.0.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Tom Murphy <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi *,
>     (I posted a very similar question to a Haskell list yesterday)
>  If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as an
> Erlang devel platform (completeness of base, packages, stability,
> support, robustness), what would you all recommend?
>
> Thanks for your time!
> Tom
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[Hynek Vychodil-2]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Wilson MacGyver <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I use Fedora for both haskell and erlang. Fedora is fairly good about
> keeping up to
> date with both haskell platform and erlang providing you keep Fedora up to date.
>
> For example, the current Fedora 15 has Erlang R14B02. and haskell platform
> 2011.2.0.0.

Current stable Erlang version is 14B03 and even this version is
provided in Debian.

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> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Tom Murphy <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi *,
>>     (I posted a very similar question to a Haskell list yesterday)
>>  If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as an
>> Erlang devel platform (completeness of base, packages, stability,
>> support, robustness), what would you all recommend?
>>
>> Thanks for your time!
>> Tom
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[Garrett Smith-5]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Tom Murphy <[hidden email]> wrote:

>  If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as an
> Erlang devel platform (completeness of base, packages, stability,
> support, robustness), what would you all recommend?

I like Arch, which is a solid "rolling release" distro. I've found the
ecosystem to be consistent with their religion:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

Arch has a friendly packager that would let you build software (e.g.
say you wanted a particular variant of Erlang) that fit cleanly into
the system package management scheme.

Garrett
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[Toby Thain]

On 28/06/11 2:55 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Tom Murphy <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>  If my choice of Lunix distro depended 100% on its solidness as an
>> Erlang devel platform (completeness of base, packages, stability,
>> support, robustness), what would you all recommend?
>
> I like Arch, which is a solid "rolling release" distro. I've found the
> ecosystem to be consistent with their religion:

I would second the choice of a rolling release system, for flexibility.
I choose Gentoo myself but I hear good things about Arch.

--Toby

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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
>
> Arch has a friendly packager that would let you build software (e.g.
> say you wanted a particular variant of Erlang) that fit cleanly into
> the system package management scheme.
>
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