best Linux to build the MLVM

[Raffaello Giulietti]

Folks,

what are the best Linux distributions to build and run the MLVM on x86
and x64?

I know the question might sound silly and that it could start an endless
and unfruitful religious war. I'm convinced, however, that the members
of this mailing list are professionals and passionates focused on
technical aspects rather than on unsubstantiated opinions. Hence, I hope
the discussion will help to distill objective, well motivated, honest
technical merits of some specific distributions compared to others
**limited to this specific context**.

I'd really appreciate first hand experience accumulated over time with
consistent results. Everyone out there that can regularly, successfully
and systematically built the MLVM on Linux x86 and x64 without much pain
is welcome to share his/her (possibly unbiased) opinion on this mailing
list.

Thanks in advance
Raffaello