Best distro for django

[developingchris]

Looking for opinion of the best distro for a developer machine for
django.

I'm on ubuntu now, its going ok. I'm having keyboard issues, and
wondering if I should put the time in on fixing it, or just ditch it
for say, pc-bsd, if thats what the cool django kids are using.

[Vitaly Babiy]

I use Ubuntu 9.04, works great on a XPS M1530 Laptop

Vitaly Babiy

[Mike Ramirez]

In my experience, the simple truth to this is what you like and are
comfortable with. Personally I use fedora based machines for almost
everything (I use solaris for my personal multimedia server, zfs anyone?).
So I suggest you use what you are comfortable with.

Mike

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[Oleg Korsak]

And in my experience - Gentoo will be better for developers

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[Tim Chase]

I've done Django development on multiple OSes and found 3 tiers
of experience:

Top Tier: any Linux or BSD I've played with (Debian, Ubuntu,
OpenBSD). I expect other variants will be equally facile (Red
Hat, Suse, Slack, Gentoo, PC BSD, FreeBSD, etc)

Mid Tier: Mac OS X -- Doable, but a few more hoops to jump
through. Easiest since Python2.5's added built-in sqlite3 which
previously you had to build yourself

Bottom Tier: Win32. It's feasible (especially once Python2.5
added sqlite3), but I've found this a notably more painful
experience than on the other two tiers of platforms.

I haven't tinkered with Solaris in *years* so I don't know
whether that would be top- or middle-tier.

However, once you've got the base configuration done, development
is pretty easy no matter where you do it.

My $0.02

-tim

[Evandro Viana]

Debian or Slackware 

more 

the best for developer is OSX 

[Dhruv Adhia]

I ve been PC user for almost a decade, getting enough frustration , I shifted to mac osx and I am happy with it. Much less configuration required.
I ve just installed Linux Ubuntu yesterday. Lets see how it goes with Linux.

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[Sam Walters]

It should not matter. Any modern Linux Distro which supports the dependencies will be no different.

The only conceivable way this question makes sense is if you want to make install or deployment easy. In which case use something thats based on a debian, fedora type distro where there is heaps of help/tutorials for things like installing web server packages. So the issue becomes one of package manager choice.

Keyboard Issues? Would be easier to solve the keyboard issue without switching distro, ubuntu community is great for these things.

[Evandro Viana]

Heavy linux user but are moving to OSX , especially the webdev's

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[Juan Hernandez]

It doesn't matter. All you have to consider is what kind of modules are you going to be working most of the time and evaluate how easy or hard it is to compile them or install them in that OS. I personally choose any debian based distro because apt-get/aptitude package manager is very powerfull. I guess that any linux distro with a good package manager will be more than suitable for django/python development as I have seen how awful it is to use python modules on windows

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Saturday 04 July 2009 01:31:57 Mike Ramirez wrote:
> > I'm on ubuntu now, its going ok. I'm having keyboard issues, and
> > wondering if I should put the time in on fixing it, or just ditch it
> > for say, pc-bsd, if thats what the cool django kids are using.
>
> In my experience, the simple truth to this is what you like and are
> comfortable with. Personally I use fedora based machines for almost
> everything (I use solaris for my personal multimedia server, zfs anyone?).
> So I suggest you use what you are comfortable with.

I use fedora for laptop and lenny for production.
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[wei ribao]

I am using ubuntu9.04 too. I have a long-standing trouble.

When using pdb to debug, set pdb.set_trace() to bring up the interactive shell, i cannot use arrow keys.

It is all ok in windows. And I can find anything from google.

How do you guys slove that?

[Lakshman Prasad]

Thats strange; Can you elaborate the problem a little;

I have been  using Ubuntu9.04 and I couldn't be happier. I don't know how any other environment can be even more conducive to development.

2009/7/4 wei ribao <wrb...@gmail.com>

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[wei ribao]

Sorry if I did not describe the problem clear.

It is , in ubuntu, in the terminal sometimes I cannot use the left key and some other keys in the shell, I press the left key the cursor will not go left, instead it displays something like "^X[[". Normally everything is ok, but in some interative environment, say, the environment brought by "pdb.set_trace()", this problem happens.

[Lakshman Prasad]

For one, you could use the much more feature full with tab auto complete debugger, ipdb.

But I just verified that, even pdb.set_trace() works well with arrow keys, on my system. Python 2.6.2 GNome Terminal 2.26

[wei ribao]

Oh sorry, it seems the problem is not on "pdb.set_trace()", it works for me too.

In google app engine, pdb.set_trace() will not work.
Instead I have to use:
def set_trace():
import pdb, sys
debugger = pdb.Pdb(stdin=sys.__stdin__,
stdout=sys.__stdout__)
debugger.set_trace(sys._getframe().f_back)

In this environment the left arrow key keep producing "^[[D", and right arrow key producing "^[[C".

And it works fine in windows.

I just tried ipdb, and it has the same problem.

I guess this is the only thing that I miss Windows when programming.

In google app engine pdb.set_trace() will not work.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

This is a rather silly question, as it's more of general "which distro
do you prefer" thing.

That said, I love Arch Linux absolutely, because it gives me control
over my system without having the pains that the distros "real geeks"
use (namely Slack, Gentoo) produce. Arch's primary goal is
simplicity, and as thus, it feels very Pythonic to me. YMMV, of
course.