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Now, I am more and more leaning towards having a debian VM into which I can do all the development. That's the kind of system production ends up on anyway. Debian 6 for me, as 7 requires to go into Multiarch + 32 bits libs which is not on by default and is a headache to get right.
This is why what eliot is doing with the 64 bits is really key for our future.
I had a hard time getting Pharo to run on Debian 7. And when faced with a given default server box, it was worse as there was no way to add the packages. This excluded Pharo while Rails/PHP people ran happily. :-(
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