After being recommended to use scientific linux I decided to find out more about it. After looking for it in wikipedia I found out that it is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so I’m pretty sure it’s going to work when compiling avida as described in my previous post. Another good thing about it is that it’s free and it has the same windows like interface as Red Hat Enterprise. If you are not into c++ developing or hacking I recommend Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. They mail you the installation CD for free and the CD has “a lot” of rpm packages (like intall programs in windows). If you download a package and you need dependancies, just put the CD in and it downloads the dependancies for you! You don’t have to download them from the internet.
You can find more about Scientific Linux at:
