[mesa-users] Which Linux distribution to run MESA?

[Valery Pipin]

Hi!
I think that the first suggestion from Aaron (to try MESA on the 
windows)  is the best one
> Hi Anne,
>
> Judging by the problems over the years - avoid Ubuntu. I don't have 
> exact stats but from the dozens of emails I have seen about Linux 
> problems with Mesa it seems about 90% or more are Ubuntu users.
This is incorrect judging  :-), because 90% of linux users are from 
Ubuntu and because most of them are probably newbies in linux.
I'm personally using MESA on Mageia. I think if the user is strongly 
motivated to use MESA on the linux he could try every popular distro.
For newbie in linux it is important to have someone nearby  who is 
familiar with linux and use the start with the same linux distro as 
his/her linux guru.

Best regards!
Valery
>
> Regards,
>
> Grant
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Anne Thoul <anne.thoul at ulg.ac.be 
> <mailto:anne.thoul at ulg.ac.be>> wrote:
>
>     Dear MESA users
>
>
>     I will be supervising an undergraduate thesis this year; the
>     project title is "Using MESA to learn about stellar evolution".
>     The student still has to define exactly what problem she wants to
>     look at more specifically.
>
>     She has never used Unix and never had an astronomy class…
>
>     In order to avoid having unnecessary problems and hassles, my
>     question is the following:
>
>     Since she still has to install a distribution of Linux on her
>     laptop, do you have any recommendation on which one she
>     should install, or which one she should NOT install?
>
>     I am myself running MESA on a Mac, so I have no experience with
>     running MESA on Linux.
>
>     Thank you for any information you can give me!
>
>     Anne
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