Top Secret Project

I received my Linode account for the Rails Rumble.

I logged in and the first thing I have to do is pick the Linux distro I want to install and use for the Rumble.

There are far too many options!

The available distros are:

• Arch 0.7.1
• Debian 4.0 (Etch)
• Finnix 86.1
• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 7.04
• CentOS 5.0 (RHEL rebuild)
• Fedora Core 6 (FC6)
• Slackware 12.0 (-new-)
• Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo)
• Gentoo Linux 2006.1

I’m not really a systems person … I know my way around Linux, but I don’t have a whole lot of experience setting a machine up from scratch. I’ve been lucky that for the last several years I’ve worked with truly awesome sys admins who take care of all this stuff for us.

So what to use?

I am leaning toward Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) because it looks like there are some good tutorials around (I even think the Peepcode guys have been using Ubuntu for some of their work - it might be time to subscribe).

Any ideas are appreciated. I am definitely going to learn a lot this weekend.

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