test systems

[Ethan Furman]

Howdy,

I'm going to setup a few linux systems for testing (probably three) as
well as the three FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and (possibly) NetBsd. Oh, and
Windows.

Any recommendations on which linuces to pick?

~Ethan~

 

[Alister Ware]

Howdy,

I'm going to setup a few linux systems for testing (probably three) as
well as the three FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and (possibly) NetBsd. Oh, and
Windows.

Any recommendations on which linuces to pick?

~Ethan~

I would suggest you ned something from the main core distributions
so something debian based & something Red hat based, i would also suggest
looking at slackware @ gentoo to add completness

of course if you are really ambitious you could try linux from scratch

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Howdy,

I'm going to setup a few linux systems for testing (probably three) as
well as the three FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and (possibly) NetBsd. Oh, and
Windows.

Any recommendations on which linuces to pick?

What are you testing? Is this for buildbots? Are you testing consumer-level
software? Who is your software aimed at?

Depending on the answer to that, normally I would say one each from the
Debian and Redhat families, plus one other. E.g. pick one from each:

(1) Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint

(2) RHEL (if you can afford the licence fee), Centos, Fedora

(3) Gentoo, Arch Linux, Suse, Slackware


Some additional thoughts:

I presume you're using VMs rather than six physical machines.

What, no Apple Mac?

Keep in mind that Arch uses Python 3 for the system python.

Also keep in mind that Arch is generally considered to be so far out on the
bleeding edge that even Slackware users consider them nuts.