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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:12:08 -0600
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Subject: Re: Linux Alternatives for CouchDB
From: Ryan Ramage <ryan.ramage@gmail.com>
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I am not sure if you mean a development environment to develop couchdb
itself or simply to use couchdb. For Windows support you might want to
discuss with  Dave Cottlehuber.
Dave has put together some good support for windows with his installers here:

https://github.com/dch/couchdb/downloads

Have you given that a try?

Ryan

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Clarke Bishop <cbishop@resultantsys.com> wrote:
> I am setting up a development environment to learn CouchDB. But, I'm using
> Windows.
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> I tried Cygwin, but kept running into various problems. So, I decided to
> switch to Linux running under VMware. I still think this is the best
> direction.
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> I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu (11.10) and installed it. But,
> then I discovered that CouchDB 1.1 support was limited, and I haven't been
> able to get CouchDB installed.
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> Here's my question. What's the best, stable version of Linux for running
> CouchDB 1.1? Should I use another version of Ubuntu or another distribution
> entirely?
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> Thanks for any advice.
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