best Linux to build the MLVM

[Christian Thalinger]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:20 +0200, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
> 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.

I used to build it on Ubuntu and RedHat.  But as you say, any
distribution should do it.

-- Christian