On 11 Set 2010 04h44 WEST, [email protected] wrote: > I'm curious to hear what others are using as a development > platform. I'm dying a slooooooow motion death on mine. I have a 2GHz > dual-core laptop with 3Gb of memory running Vista. I decided I > wanted to develop on Linux, so I'm running Vbox with Ubuntu 10.4 as > the guest, with 1.5Gb of memory and 50Gb of disk (only using about > 8) alloted to it. >
With that machine and modern OS there's no need to buy anything. Windows as a development platform is rather poor. Unless you're developing .NET stuff. Get a UNIX OS. It's older (70s tech) than Windows (80s tech) but a much more solid platform. Completely different approach, the command line is one of its greatest assets IMHO. Install Debian Squeeze and say goodbye to most of your problems. I'm in a machine with less power than yours, running several Drupal dev installs, firewall, MTA, with no problems. I dumped Apache some time ago and run nginx exclusively. > As I type this message, the letters appear a second or two after > I've typed them (thankfully I'm a touch typer and it buffers). Don't > even ask about running update.php or bringing up the modules > page...several minutes each. In looking at the resource monitor, > it's not memory (no paging is going on) but the CPU is pegged. All I > have running is firefox, chrome and thunderbird at the > moment. Jedit, which is much lighter than JavaBeans, etc., runs > painfully slow too. Drop Firefox and get Chromium. The new 6 beta release is a good deal faster than the previous 5.0.375, so it seems. The chromium browser inspector is roughly at par with firebug. --- appa
