Linux(RHEL or Oracle linux) User experiences ..

B'coz OVMServer manager could not be installed on a mac, I'm planning to format mac into wholly linux and give up mac (or win7).
I donot use by computer except for development work, like eclipse, MS Office, email, browse etc. .. basic things needed for development.
(nothing like video editing etc., no audio files etc,)
If I choose to use linux as my desktop environment will it have any impact. People I come across are mainly windows or mac.
Wondering if you can share your user experiences of Linux (desktop environment) .
Please advice.

I think virtualization will give you many advantages and flexibility for the purpose of development and evaluation. For the primary OS I would choose what I think is the most complete, most comfortable and reliable. To my experience, no system does it better than MacOSX, and no other system will give you a better all-around mix of available commercial and open source software.
If you decide to go for Linux as your primary OS, take into consideration that enterprise Linux distributions like RHEL, OEL and CentOS have no or very limited support for laptop and mobility hardware, and certainly do not play well with the latest Apple hardware. The same goes for Windows 7. Ubuntu, for example, provides more out of the box support for Laptop and Desktop hardware, but also does not work well with the latest Apple stuff, including other brand name PC laptops.
I have a Macbook Pro 2009 and decided for triple boot using the rEFlt boot loader since VMware does not support Firewire. I'm certainly not a beginner with many years of professional IT experience on various platforms, but it was still quite a challenge. I got things worked out more or less after a lot of research, installing and compiling development drivers with the latest Ubuntu 10.04 to support my trackpad, insight camera, Wifi and other stuff. Power management does not work properly and the system constantly runs at the maximum specs and freqs, driving it very hot, unlike in MacOSX. Windows 7 on the latest Apple Macbooks is also pretty immature, incomplete and just makes me wonder. My only reason for running Linux is Oracle, I have no reason to run Windows 7, and I'm glad to be able use MacOSX.

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Rukiri wrote:
I use Arch as my everyday OS but I've been developing a few sites with Django and Ruby on rails and wondering what OS would be best suited for a server environment.
I'm building a custom dedicated box.....I've used Gentoo, Arch, and SUSE(OpenSUSE).....
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- Todd Wyman

Hi Todd,
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