Yeah.. I'm aware. As I stated in my original email: "Ideally I'd like to keep using my traditional Windows apps to do development..." I'm comfortable moving around in linux, but the tools and OS I choose to use are all Windows-centric. But instead of installing Apache and PHP and MySQL on my Windows machine at work and at home, as I have in the past, then lose interest in the project I'm working on and have a bunch of servers installed that I'm not using, I'd like to set up a virtual machine to keep all the server/test environment contained out of the way. And while I'm 'comfortable' getting around in linux and know a few tricks, I don't feel that I know it well enough to try to start trimming out a gig or two of stuff and fiddling with swap space settings and all to make my own streamline distro with the apps I want. Especially if one already exists. I'd rather waste my time developing PHP apps that nobody but me will ever use, than fiddling with OS streamlining and configuration. -TG = = = Original message = = = Did you know that VM-ware actually runs under RH linux? Warren -----Original Message----- From: tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:16 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: parasane@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Small LAMP install/distro Yeah, I took a quick look at Damn Small Linux. And have been playing around with Puppy Linux (which is pretty cool too). I may end up using one of those. Wanted to see if there was a distro with everything built into it already (Damn Small seems to have a lot of average user apps and not really developer/small server type stuff) Thanks for the suggestion though, Daniel. (And yes, I top-post. Get the pitchforks!) -TG = = = Original message = = = On 6/21/07, tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, done all my googling and experimenting, now I'm tossing it to you guys. > > Can anyone recommend a small, no frills, LAMP-centric linux package/distro? > > What I'm doing is setting up a test/development environment in a VMWare virtual machine to keep things all nice and comparmentalized. It's going to emulate (at least in PHP and MySQL version and configuration) my web host. Ideally I'd like to keep using my traditional Windows apps to do development, but save my work to a Samba share on the virtual machine (so guess toss Samba into that too). > > Maybe there's better ways to do what I want, but now I'm discovered a challenge that I'd like to overcome. > > I have something called "Grandma's LAMP", which is actually pretty cool. It runs Xubuntu, which I dig, but still takes up 1.5gig (and is config'd for a max of 10gb > HD space). It has the full GUI and everything installed. > > GUI is nice, but not 100% necessary. AMP + Samba is good. And I'm transporting this all around on a 2GB thunbdrive (oh yeah, did I not mention that?). > > If it was sans-GUI, I don't see why the whole thing couldn't be under 500MB. > > Thought maybe someone out there had seen a distro pack specifically geared for quick and dirty LAMP + Samba setup. > > -TG > Google for "DSL" (Damn Small Linux). I've used that a few times myself. Pretty cool. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
