that looks way to easy ;) </ryan>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Randy Fay <[email protected]> wrote: > One great resource everybody should know about is the Quickstart Project, > http://drupal.org/project/quickstart, which provides a completely-set-up > Ubuntu instance, with Drupal configured, Apache, Mysql, Eclipse, Netbeans, > everything all there out of the box. You can run it in the free Virtualbox > environment on Mac, Windows, or Ubuntu. You avoid the speed problems of > Windows that way. > > It's a fantastic resource. > > -Randy > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Allister Beharry < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Firefox can and does peg the CPU on Windows for no apparent reason >> after a while. Try killing Firefox and working without it and see how >> it is. But 3 GB is not enough for Vista. >> A developer machine should have a minimum 4G RAM and ideally 8, >> especially if you're running a VM. I run a Linux image inside >> VirtualBox too for development and I don't get any performance issues >> on my quad-core with 8GB. Although it doesn't eat up as much resources >> as Windows, a full GNOME or KDE desktop environment is very heavy, >> especially with all the stuff Ubuntu must pack in. If you don't use a >> graphical environment your Linux image memory requirements will barely >> scrape 512MB. I use mostly ssh + screen + vim and although the >> learning curve is high I'm now very productive with them. >> >> Allister. >> >> On 10 September 2010 23:44, Jeff Greenberg <[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. >> > >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > >> > So...ANY ideas (short of tossing the laptop and buying a real >> workstation) >> > would be greatly appreciated! >> > >> > >> > Jeff >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Randy Fay > Drupal Module and Site Development > [email protected] > +1 970.462.7450 > >
