Recommended Django setup?

I am about to embark a major django project. If I install the latest stable release... is the a suggested setup ie. this OS, this R开发者_JAVA百科DBMS, this version of python etc?? I'm normally a CentOS man but their repos don't play too well with the django requirements...

Ubuntu is far and away a better platform nowadays. I'm a refugee from RHEL and Fedora. Get Ubuntu 9.10, and if you'd like, spawn it on Amazon ec2 for total flexibility (i.e. launch it in about 90 seconds, play around, do what you want, delete it, and only pay a buck). Otherwise, just use Ubuntu on the desktop.

Ubuntu has Python 2.6 by default so you don't have to go out and find weird upgrade paths. Also Ubuntu has ready-to-go installations for django 1.1.1 (the latest and greatest) that integrate with Apache, etc...

In other words, with zero usage of PIP, easy_install or source installations, you can get running with Django on Ubuntu/Apache.

Once you're comfortable, PIP is the tool you should use for all non-stock python library installations as it's more up to date.

MySQL is easier than Postgres but it doesn't really matter either way.

=== edit ==== I forgot to add that I use mod_wsgi. I forgot all about it since the Ubuntu Apache installation was so easy that I hardly had to even think about it.

httpd, mod_wsgi, PostgreSQL, and EPEL. CentOS is just fine.

We use Fedora 11, MySQL, Apache, mod_wsgi, Python 2.6. Works great.

Ubuntu 11.04, Django, MongoDB, and Python 2.7 for us and everything runs quite snappy.

Really a big fan of the NoSQL db solutions. If you're unfamiliar with it I would highly suggest giving it a try because it may change your opinion. Either way, here some food for thought:

Django Production Envionrment Setup with MongoDB