Re: Small LAMP install/distro

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, tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com <tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com> 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. -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107 ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.