[Haskell-cafe] Best Linux for Haskell?

[David Fox]

On 11/6/07, Peter Verswyvelen <bf3 at telenet.be> wrote:

> So which kind Linux works best for running GHC (6.8.1) and related tools? (I
> want to give Yi a go, I can't get it to work on Windows). Debian? Fedora?
> Ubuntu?

I took an informal poll at this year's Haskell Hackathon, and well
over half were using some type of Debian based distribution, with a
majority of those using Ubuntu.  GHC 6.8.1 is not yet available in the
form of Debian packages, but I believe it will be shortly.

-david