Favorite flavor of Linux? (for python or anything else)

[Jorgen Grahn]

On 4 Dec 2005 09:55:49 -0800, malv <malvert at telenet.be> wrote:
> I have been around quite a bit.
> The best are Gentoo and Debian.
> However, Python being very much an essential component of your distro,
> not having Python2.4 as standard kind of eliminates Debian.

Why? It's not as if Python 2.3 is suddenly worthless. Python 2.2 is the
default install (on RedHat something) where I work: there are still reasons
to program against an older release.

And besides, Debian Stable /does/ include Python 2.4:

  http://packages.debian.org/stable/python/python2.4

> Running two
> versions in parallel is not the way to go.

Why not? It seems like a fairly small invonvenience to me.

I use Debian stable exclusively -- but people have different priorities and
I accept that (as long as they run Unix ;-). But any Unix today will come
with a reasonable Python installation; I don't see that as an important part
of the choice.

/Jorgen

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