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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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