RE: Small LAMP install/distro

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I can recommend Fedora Core 6, it has more uptodate Apache, PHP and MySQL,
than does Red Hat Enterprise 4, which is what the company I consult for
installed on their VM-ware environment.  We spent a lot of time upgrading
everything on the VM Host because the RH Enterprise was so far behind.  I
run the Fedora 6 on a spare machine at home, and everything that version is
far superior, don't even try to convince the corporate types though, they
want a corporate name behind things, like there might be someone to blame,
other than themselves, if something goes wrong.

I've also used Free BSD, Redhat 9, and older versions of Suse, but prefer
the Fedora.  The MySQL on Fedora 6 has master/slave replication, if you know
what that is.

Warren 

-----Original Message-----
From: tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:41 PM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: warren@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Small LAMP install/distro

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


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