Quote from: John Smith on June 16, 2011, 10:57:31 AM

Quote from: noone on June 16, 2011, 10:50:35 AM

It has always perplexed me that the bitcoin core users seem to prefer ubuntu/debian over Redhat/Fedora/CentOS linux when they are supposedly "security conscious" elites of some sort ....

... industrial users who "need" security go the enterprise RH, Novell, suse linux direction not the other way ... just saying, seems weird.

For example, btw, has anybody got bitcoin 0.3.23.beta to build on fedora 15? (or any recent non-debian *nix derivative for that matter?)

Let's please sooo not start a distribution fight. There are many places on the internet where one can find the advantages and disadvantages of every single Linux distribution. The guy was asking about Ubuntu, nothing else. Start your own thread Tongue

Okay then, as far as ubuntu goes, I wouldn't put more than about 3 btc on any ubuntu machine ... it is gui-bloated bunch of crap. If you must, use ubuntu server and strip out any network capable apps and forget about running a browser in same account as wallet or even on same machine ...

... happy? Only windows would be a worse option.

(Linux user since '96.)