Here is a link to instructions I've put together for the development platform I am currently using:
http://dev.antoinesolutions.com/free-open-source-php-ide-fedora-13 This setup uses Fedora which has been OK, but I am working on a new development platform for Aegir that will use Debian... not sure when I'll be finished. -- Good luck, Antoine On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Victor Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > Two other alternatives: > > 1. Get an old PC/laptop nobody uses and stick Linux on it, with a minimum > LAMP stack and Drupal, make a little network and you're all set. An old > laptop would do great. > 2. Turn your old clunker into a thin client and get a VPS on Linode or > similar and put your head in the clouds. Get a decent internet connection > and you're all set. > 3. Back up everything, install Ubuntu on your old clunker and run windows > in Vbox on top of Ubuntu. It'll still be slow, but not as slow as now (worst > alternative). > > Victor Kane > http://awebfactory.com.ar > http://projectflowandtracker.com > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:11 AM, António P. P. Almeida > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> >
