[thelist] Just moved from Vista to Ubuntu -Web Dev Help???

[Martin Burns]

On 29 Sep 2009, at 15:02, Fred Jones wrote:

>> Overall, I would suggest avoiding using whatever package manager
>> Ubuntu uses, and install everything directly: MySQL binary, Apache
>> and PHP from source. It'll take you a little longer but it'll be  
>> worth it
>> in the long run.
>
> In my experience the packages are OK for simple local testing. Unless
> you need something very specific...


And for production use too - otherwise you won't get the security  
updates nicely.

It works for Debian Stable; it works for Ubuntu.

Cheers
Martin

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