python linux distro

[John McCallum]

Hiya,

> last night i was lying in my bed and thinking about something. is
> there any linux distro that is primary oriented to python.

Well, it's a general purpose distro, but Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) relies on
Python as it's package management system is written in Python & Bash. most
python things I use are available, but scipy is masked at the moment
(this means that there is a problem with the package - you can normally
use masked packages, but at your own risk ;).

Also, it should be noted that unlike most other distro's, Gentoo is a
source distro: the package system downloads and builds for your system and
so you can set global preferences, such as the optimisation level or
processor support. It just takes a few CPU more cycles to upgrade things.

HTH,
John McCallum