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Choice of Linux Distro for developing with

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GodEater:
I'm curious to know which distro people choose to run when they develop for Rockbox (assuming they use one, and don't use cygwin, vmware, or coLinux).

If you vote, I'd appreciate a quick one liner on why, if you have time :)

007quick:
I use mandrake linux because it is my first one and the websites said that it was easy to use!

NicolasP:
I chose kubuntu because for several reasons (including rockbox developement), i wanted linux with KDE. ubuntu was almost unanimously presented as the best distro of the moment so i went with kubuntu and now it's my main OS :)

dan_a:
I use Gentoo, because I'm used to it.

Rincewind:
I use Ubuntu, because I wanted to switch from windows to linux anyway and ubuntu has a very nice packaging mechanism (but I don't know other Distros, it might not be the best).
You can also find very much information in the internet about ubuntu. A friend has Ubuntu, so this biased my decision, too.

If I want to try out KDE then I can install it in ubuntu, too, so  this was not part of the decision for me.

I suppose that the rockboxdev.sh script and a good editor will run on every (major) distro in  the same way, so it only matters if you want to use Linux for more than just programming.

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