What is a good linux distro centered around program development and coding?

I'm looking for a linux distribution more centered around one specific thing -- programming and program development, in this case -- instead of a good general-purpose distro -- Slackware, which is what I'm using right now. Any distros come to mind?What is a good linux distro centered around program development and coding?
Not really, just one thought I had is that I would want to stay as far upstream as possible and on a stable branch to get the most compatibility downstream. (Debian or Redhat)

It's really quite easy to cater your desktop environment and tools to what you want to do.What is a good linux distro centered around program development and coding?
A Linux distribution centered on programming would be of little use, since most users don't want to write programs, and an environment that is aimed towards programming and nothing else is thus a waste. All practical operating systems are designed to run useful applications, including all serious Linux distributions. Designing an operating system to emphasize development is like designing a car to emphasize staying in the mechanic's garage.



The proper way to proceed is to find a Linux distribution or other operating system for which you'd like to write applications, and then install it and develop your software using the target operating system. Every operating system has development environments available for writing applications for it. If you want to write applications for XYZ, then you install the XYZ OS and do your development under it.What is a good linux distro centered around program development and coding?
Well, the popular answer is Ubuntu. Here's a full list of linux distros to explore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lin鈥?/a>



According to this site Workbench is the linux distro for software devs, which is an offshoot of Xubuntu, which is related to ubuntu.

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/147鈥?/a>
Hmm, although I'm not experienced with many linux distros, I kind of figured that they are all the same for programming and dev. You can get all the same dev tools on all the distros so I think it would more be a personal preference thing. I personally enjoy debian alot, but can't say that I've noticed any real "programming centered" distros.