[Haskell-cafe] Choice of Linux distro redux

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 22 June 2011 08:34, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 18:26, John Wagner <gnujohn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When you say that support for GHCi is in general best among the Linux
>> distros (unordered)
>> "Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and Debian (I think Testing)", is Ubuntu to be
>> inferred from Debian, or is
>
> The former; for most purposes Ubuntu is Debian with a modified release
> cycle.

Though I've heard of a lot of problems of people trying to install GHC
and associated libraries on Ubuntu (including a lot of first year uni
students... >_> ).

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