On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:27 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
It's quite impressive, I agree. I wish their drush customizations worked better with drupal7, though. That said, I run a Windows box using Windows 7, 64 bit, 4 GB ram and some chip that was new a few years ago. I do most of my development work in virtualbox, either in ubuntu machines I create myself or now using the quickstart instance. The joys of virtualbox is that my machines can be paused - so I can shut down my host machine for the night without having to get everything in place when I start workign again, machines can also be exported and copied to other machines. When I was working on my presentation for Drupalcamp, I did up most of the presentation on my desktop, and then just exported it and copied it to a laptop to continue using all of my pre-set-up examples and all without having to worry a bit. -- John Fiala www.jcfiala.net
