Now you tell me that xubuntu is a lightweight desktop ONLY distro. :)
I assumed it was a LAMP because is has a LAMP server.
Well I spent a lot of time finding that out.
I used to be a purist. Severs never should have X. I still feel that way for most production servers.
I find having X on a development box makes managing it really nice.
I used my laptop to experiment so I do not mess up my dev environment. I also wanted to install Linux on my laptop.
My goal is to decide on which distro to put on my new server that will be LAMP with X. Right now Fedora is doing a good job.
I must admit I have not done much Linux in 3 years ...... A lot has changed and I must say for the better.
I installed the Ubuntu desktop - gnome which does seem to use more resources but not bad.
I have everything installed except Anjuta.
Questions for server install:
1) Does phpMyAdmin automatically install using the lamp server version?
2) Since I need LAMP I'm thinking of installing the server then adding the Desktop after that. Any thoughts?
Oh btw I'm going to use my new server as a dev server and a workstation .....
Thanks a bunch.
Keith
JT Moree <
moreejt@pcxperience.com> wrote: keith smith wrote:
> I'm running Fedora Core 5 on my dev box ... needed very little messaging.
>
> I wonder how it would install on my laptop? I think I am about to find out.
>
> I don't think xubuntu is going to work. Way too much configuring
> required to maker it a lamp development environment.
Different distros' have different philosophies for what should be
installed out of the box.
You're trying to use xubuntu as a developer distro? That's not what
it's for. It's a lightweight desktop distro. You need to use ubuntu
server for a lamp stack out of the box (so to speak). It's in the
downloads on the ubuntu site.
K/X/Ed/ubuntu is based on debian. Debian's philosophy is to NOT install
stuff unless it's needed. It's tedious but generally better than the
other distros when you need to install to old hardware or virtual
machines. There are usually meta packages to handle installing a bunch
of stuff at once. Like 'kde' for the kde desktop and some apps.
Has anyone tried a minimal install of Fedora lately. 700M and you don't
get anything useful like X or servers.
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PC Xperience, Inc.
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