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I know there choice of distro is really meaningless as you can install almost any program on almost any distro. But I have been playing with kali which is for security people and pen testers. Is there a similar distro for programmers? Like a few ides installed some profiling tools some virtual environment tools etc?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean pretty much any distro that isn't locked down will be good for programming. All you really need is a package manager with a selection of at least somewhat modern dev tools, which almost all of them have.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

kali is for posers, professionals use hannah montana

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Biebian is VASTLY superior to Hannah Montana Linux. You should consider switching.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not out of the box that I know of, no.

You'd have to be specific about programming to have a programming specific distro.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago
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