[oe] Which distro for OE development?

[Bjørn Forsman]

2009/11/19 Hodgson, Simon <Simon.Hodgson at nortechonline.co.uk>:
> I'm setting up a new machine with Linux specifically to use for OpenEmbedded development. Which Linux distro should I go with?
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> I'm looking to make it as easy as possible to get started, so ideally all the packages I need will be available from that distro's standard repositry.
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> I've tried SuSE in the past and given up trying to get all of the required tools installed, and more recently been using Debian, but the Python version in Debian is a few versions behind and there was talk of OE soon requiring a more up to date version.
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> Ubuntu is a good candidate at the moment as I belive there won't be any hardware issues with the laptop I want to use, but this wiki page suggests there's some faffing to do http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Gcc_issues_in_Intrepid_and_later which I'd like to avoid if possible - does anyone know if these issues are present in the latest version 9.10?

I've been using OE on Ubuntu 9.04 and now 9.10 without problems.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman