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Is there a definite best distro for AI research? I want to build a AI that can be used to help me manage all my emails intelligently.

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What would the distro have to do with this? What features are you looking for? – Michael Mrozek♦ Nov 30 '11 at 15:40
Be able to handle a large amount of incoming data and be able to process it quickly. I am looking for a Distro with a lot of power but quick but useable for a programmer and not just some one who is familiar with terminal. – 11D Reality Hacker Nov 30 '11 at 16:51

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I bet any Linux distribution will do. Depends on what you have experience with.

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I have Ubuntu experience. – 11D Reality Hacker Nov 30 '11 at 16:49
My guess is Debian is what you're after. They are similar enough that you should have no issue using it. It also doesn't contain any ubuntu modifications for which many people consider bloated. – user606723 Nov 30 '11 at 21:49
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It matters actually. Artificial Intelligence research, the magnitude of the term varies significantly given the application of the research/work. Since AI works generally are performed with more of higher end architecture cpu resources with wide variety of capabilities, generally out of bound reach to desktop PC computers. So, the answer is actually it depends on what sort of hardware are you using for your AI research work. Depending on the hardware requirements, the OS decision is generally made. For example, if your hardware requirement tends to be x86, it could be sorted with any normal OS/Linux distro since they perform pretty well for the x86 systems. If the hardware requirement scales to x86_64 or beyond them like sparc or ia_64, then I would choose a OS or distro that scales well to those architectures. For the matter of the fact, if it happens to be that the research work requires to have real time scheduling and processing with more signal handling capabilities and guaranteed performance, then the choice would be in the group of RTOS - Real Time Operating Systems. In RTOS segment, there are quiet a few choices ranging for experimental to enterprise like RTLinux, LynxOS, QNX, VxWorks etc.,. Hope this helps.

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>> I want to build a AI that can be used to help me manage all my emails intelligently. Given that this is what you are stating, it does not really matter since usage is personal, its all comes to hardware(high|low mail volume & actions) and application software that you are dealing with. – Nikhil Mulley Dec 1 '11 at 6:16
Thank you this does help me out. – 11D Reality Hacker Dec 1 '11 at 15:09

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