[M3devel] OS for CM3

[Mika Nystrom]

Hi Modula-3ers,

Can anyone give me some advice on what OS to install on a new PC compute
server with 16 to 24 cores and 16 to 32 GB of RAM?  The code I'm going
to be running is all written in Modula-3 with some C and Fortran thrown
in and I want to use CM3.  The odd extra thing in Java and some analysis
in R.  Currently I'm stuck with PM3 on FreeBSD/i386.

I've always liked the ease of administration (i.e., I'm an old dog and I
don't have to learn anything new) of FreeBSD, but the threading support
seems much better with Linux?  I do really want to run multi-threaded
programs across several CPUs.

I am considering Debian/amd64.  Any other recommendations, experiences?

    Mika