[thelist] Best Linux install for home development server?

Gersten, John JGERSTEN at lchb.com
Wed Sep 14 17:06:27 CDT 2011


It's been a while since I used linux in earnest, but aren't there distributions that are specifically tailored for small emplacement environments?

I found this thread, which touches on the subject:
http://forum.junowebdesign.com/unix-linux-bsd/30283-stripped-down-linux-distro.html

In particular, they refer to ***smalllinux.com, which appears to be toast, but I found http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ which says its distro is only 50Mb (pretty darned small, these days). There's definitely a fair amount of info out there on smaller linux distributions, might well be worth checking out.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org on behalf of Simon MacDonald
Sent: Wed 9/14/11 12:13
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Best Linux install for home development server?
 
My target environment is Wordpress - so I can do it on Win or linux. I guess
the big issue is my laptop is full and I want to purge it ... and I want to
get back into linux. My laptop doesn't really feel up to running virtual
environments, so I want to slim down the laptop and put some of the other
stuff onto a cheapish ( compared to a laptop) server to run some of the apps
that run in background on my laptop and free up some space and capacity.

Simon

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
>>bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Will
>>Sent: 14 September 2011 4:56 PM
>>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>>Subject: Re: [thelist] Best Linux install for home development server?
>>
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>>On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Hassan Schroeder
>><hassan.schroeder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Simon MacDonald
>><simonmacdonald at uk2.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I still want to use my laptop as my main development tool - running
>>editors
>>>> and some graphics, but I want (I think), to move  apache, mysql and
>>anything
>>>> else suitable off onto a desktop server running Linux.
>>>
>>>> 1.       What is the best Linux install to go for
>>>
>>> If you're just moving server-type stuff to it, why not pick the same
>>OS
>>> as your production system(s) use?
>>>
>>What he said. If the sole purpose of this box is to serve files that
>>will eventually live in your production environment, mimic that if
>>possible.
>>
>>If that's not possible because you deploy to different environments and
>>a set of VMs isn't interesting, a used Mac mini can be had for 200-300
>>dollars. Comes with a LAMP stack installed plus a way to test your
>>sites on osx.
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