Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] recommended distributions

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:22:47AM -0700, Mark S Petrovic wrote:
> > [Monday morning debian rant...] I think you're semi-doomed if you're
> > using debian.  There are others out there with other opinions, but the
> > vast majority of build problems we see are associated with debian.
> 
> I believe I'll have a couple months this summer to experiment with
> USRP and gnuradio, and this is pretty valuable info.  Two days ago I
> was just about to ask in public what a "recommended" platform would be.
> I'll ask now:  any general recommendations on which distribution(s)
> pose the fewest build and runtime hurdles are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mark

My current favorite is Mandrake.  I'm currently using "10.1 Official",
and it's been rock solid.  Easy to install, no problems.

I'm also interested in trying SuSE and Gentoo, but haven't had a
chance to get to them.

I haven't had good luck with Fedora Core 2 or 3, though others are
using them.

Eric