I will buck the trend and not recommend Red Hat. At least not Red Hat 7.0.

Aside from that I recommend finding a friend who runs Linux and asking them what they run, make noises that you are interested. Do this a couple of times and you are likely to find someone willing to help you get going.

At that point install whatever they run because they just volunteered to be your support (whether or not they realized that they did) and whatever they use is what they can best help you with...

After you have some experience, then switch to something else. (I use Debian. No, I know this support line trick and I won't be your support line... :-)

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: What would be the best Linux build to run perl on? by tilly
in thread What would be the best Linux build to run perl on? by SilverB1rd

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