[Catalyst] what is easiest/best GNU/Linux/BSD distribution for Catalyst?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:01:49PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> catalyst:
> 
> I've been beating my head against Debian 3.1, Apache2, and mod_perl2, and am
> starting to wonder if there's an easier way to assemble a Catalyst development
> machine.
> 
> 
> What GNU/Linux/BSD distributions can people recommend that provide recent
> versions of Perl, Apache2, mod_perl2, MySQL 4, etc., and which support CPAN and
> Catalyst well?  I'd prefer pre-built binary packages (like deb, RPM, etc.)
> rather than trying to build from source.

FreeBSD has ports for many Catalyst elements, which makes it very simple
to get everything going. And it's easy to use packages or ports for all
the other apps too. I've been using it since Catalyst was a little baby,
and it's been going great for me.

Jesse Sheidlower