Most favoured status in development environments.

[Andrei Chichak]

Not wanting to start a germanic/aussie flame war (PLEASE), but…

I'm starting on a new project and previously have used the MSYS environment to develop my code. A while back Ralf had mentioned that the installation/rebuild goes a lot faster if you are running Linux instead of MSYS. Since I would be running MSYS under windows under Fusion on a Mac, this makes a lot of sense. I tried getting the tools running on the Mac once, it worked until the next version came around and I was left behind and everything broke.

Question: what is the most favoured current development environment operating system? CentOS? Fedora 17?

Thanks,
Andrei
(0C and rain today, wooop)