[clug] which distro?

[Michael Manning]

Or you could try out VirtualBox from Sun - which is an open source
virtualisation product
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Michael Manning
http://www.michaelmanning.org/


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Nathan O'Sullivan <nathan at mammoth.com.au>wrote:

> 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
>
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