Re: Operating System Preference for Swarm

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "GL" == greg lloyd <address@hidden> writes:

GL> 1) What version of RedHat would you folks recommend, (or would you
GL> recommend some other version of Linux)?

Paul already has RPMs for Redhat 6.0, so you might as well install the
latest.  Here at the hive, we distribute Debian `slink' binary
packages suitable for use with `apt-get'.¹ I'd say go with one of
those distributions, if only because that's the community supports.
And unless you a person that *wants* to build everything from source,
avoid distributions without package managers, like Slackware.

GL> 2) With respect to MS-Win what would you run: 95, 98 or NT?

As a technical matter, NT is much more reliable and agile, in general
and for Swarm.

¹ `apt-get' has the nice feature that it will recursively install or update
all dependent packages straight from the net.

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