Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-03-01 Thread Chris
Chris Lott wrote: Thanks for the advice-- I've run Linux without a GUI for a long time, so I'm quite familiar with hand compilations-- but I always wondered if I was just missing something with packaging systems that it seemed to REQUIRE hand-compilation to get a workable development LAMP system

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-03-01 Thread John Meyer
Chris Lott wrote: > Thanks for the advice-- I've run Linux without a GUI for a long time, > so I'm quite familiar with hand compilations-- but I always wondered > if I was just missing something with packaging systems that it seemed > to REQUIRE hand-compilation to get a workable development LAMP

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-03-01 Thread Chris Lott
Thanks for the advice-- I've run Linux without a GUI for a long time, so I'm quite familiar with hand compilations-- but I always wondered if I was just missing something with packaging systems that it seemed to REQUIRE hand-compilation to get a workable development LAMP system. Anytime I tried us

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-02-27 Thread Curt Zirzow
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:13:15AM +1100, David Tulloh wrote: > Curt Zirzow wrote: > > > > > Before I get into what distib to use there are a few things i'd > > like to point out: > > > > 1) Avoid using the packaging system the OS provides for the > > developement server. If you do, you

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-02-27 Thread David Tulloh
Curt Zirzow wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:41:06PM -0900, Chris Lott wrote: > >>I'm making the switch from Windows to Linux for mydesktop and >>development environment and would greatly appreciate suggestions for >>development tools on this platform. Ubuntu seems to be getting all the >>press

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-02-27 Thread John Nichel
Chris Lott wrote: I'm making the switch from Windows to Linux for mydesktop and development environment and would greatly appreciate suggestions for development tools on this platform. Ubuntu seems to be getting all the press, but suggestions about Linux distributions are welcome as well! c U

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-02-26 Thread Curt Zirzow
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:41:06PM -0900, Chris Lott wrote: > I'm making the switch from Windows to Linux for mydesktop and > development environment and would greatly appreciate suggestions for > development tools on this platform. Ubuntu seems to be getting all the > press, but suggestions about

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-02-25 Thread Ozz
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:52:43 +1100, "chris smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ubuntu or debian are good choices (ubuntu is kept more up to date, the > debian-stable branch only gets updated with security releases between > major versions). Having said that, Debian Sid is usually pretty bleedi

Re: [PHP] Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev

2006-02-25 Thread chris smith
On 2/26/06, Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm making the switch from Windows to Linux for mydesktop and > development environment and would greatly appreciate suggestions for > development tools on this platform. Ubuntu seems to be getting all the > press, but suggestions about Linux dist