So, contrary to the suggestion of the TA, I have chosen to use the Windows operating system (rather than ubuntu) and I will be using C# as my development platform for our 462 distributed systems project this semester.
I have gone through the process of setting up a windows server on Amazon's EC2 service. It is super simple. The only drawback is that it takes 20 min or so to start up. I'm guessing this is due to sysprep doing it's first run thing. Oh well, it's a small price to pay to be able to interact with the operating system in a remote control session. The AMI (Amazon Machine Image?) that I found comes with Windows 2008 and IIS 7.0 with .NET 3.5 installed. So, basically the only thing left to do, once the machine comes up, is copy over an asp.net website into the inetpup\wwwroot folder. It worked like a dream.
I don't anticipate everything going this smoothly, but so far so good for using Windows for this class.
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