RE: the best open source OS for Rails?

Rails
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I’m a Windows guy but I really REALLY like Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Sure, the
Ruby is 1.8.2 but I want stable, not cutting-edge. I’m pretty
comfortable buidling from source anyway so if I really wanted 1.8.4 I
could do that. I’m using it for production at one site and for a
development workstation as well.

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FWIW if you use sgtpepper’s package for Debian it’s 1.8.4.

deb http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb unstable/
deb-src http://www.sgtpepper.net/hyspro/deb unstable/

Michael