![]() ![]() Probably pulling in another 200MB of stuff (apache, php, mysql, git, samba and so on - all very easy to install). And then grabbing a Debian netinst CD (110MB or less iso image) and then installing that in a virtualbox machine. So, this would mean downloading the free version of VirtualBox (OSE). I’d say Debian, because it installs small, it’s rock solid and you don’t want a GUI forced upon you, and the stable release requires precious little in the way of feeding and maintenance, but some of those benefits also apply to its various progeny (ha ha) such as (k)ubuntu. For people who don’t find horticulture as appealing as I do, I’d suggest they install a virtual machine and run up a ‘server’ in there. If I was forced to use a feeble OS, I’d become a gardener. and I’m astounded that people could choose to work with a slower and/or more convoluted work-flow. Nothing needs to get uploaded anywhere, so it’s insanely fast. So as soon as I save a file from my editor or IDE, I alt-tab into the browser and hit ctrl-r to refresh the page. This means that my projects - the collection of files that are visible to the web server - are in my home directory (under ~/public_html). ![]() (I do actually have a real server, but it’s in a different country - I wasn’t allowed to drag multiple tower cases around the planet, more’s the pity. (For the three people that didn’t already know.) This means my workstation *is* my web server and my database server (and for that matter, DNS and SMTP, etc). ![]()
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