[clug] which distro?

[Nathan O'Sullivan]

If you are primarily looking at using this for a non-production web
development server (and so dont need top performance), you may want to
consider downloading one of the "Virtual Appliances" from VMWare
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/

This will save you the effort of needing to install anything and is
virtually guaranteed to work.

Regards
Nathan

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 01:03 +1100, Hal Ashburner wrote:
> Tong Cuong wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to setup a linux box for my web application test environment. I am
> > just wondering what distro i should be using. Last time i setup linux was
> > redhat 6.0. I must confest I am a full time Window user ... (please do not
> > throw rotten egg and tomatoes at me) and partime linux user. Now there seems
> > to be a alot new distro available that suit different purpose. I would use
> > my as development machine plus web server. Any pointer would be greatly
> > appreciated :)
> >   
> Hi Tong,
> Literally any distro will suit your needs nicely. Linux distros have
> come a way since the good old days of RH6  :D
> If you want a name to search for to download, randomise(Fedora, Debian,
> Suse, Ubuntu, Gentoo) any of them. All popular, well supported and will
> have all the toys you could want for web development. I'd
>  go with a popular one myself but others would disagree with me. The
> point is it doesn't matter, we can't even be bothered having flame wars
> over distros any more.
> "Your distro is awesome, it's linux. W00t!"
> *Gentoo is slightly different in that you compile everything from source
> like BSD ports. Possibly not what you want for your web dev box, but
> maybe you do like that for all I know?
> 
> Do have a think about running linux virtualised on your windows machine,
> or indeed just running cygwin http://www.cygwin.org on windows if you
> have a bunch of stuff you'd rather keep using on your windows box at the
> same time.
> Evangelising is something most of us have got over too, the users come
> whether we do it or not. You'll be using linux before too long either
> way. ;)
> All the best with it.
> 
> Regards,
> Hal