David Lang via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 9 Feb 2026 15:56:37 -0700 (MST) >[email protected] wrote: > >> Thanks David for your feedback. Sounds like you are suggesting they >> dual boot using a USB. Cool idea. I was teaching how to configure >> VirtualBox with a Ubuntu LAMP stack using PHP-FPM so they would have >> a development and testing environment. >> >> I'm a freelancer so having a dev environment is important to me, as >> I would expect it would be for most everyone. >> >> I watched a video a few years ago where one of the two people in the >> video stated having LAMP skills for a PHP dev was unique and was >> valuable. > >a bootable USB can be your dev environment, especially if it's run on >an old computer/laptop that's too old for win10/11 > >the instructions to setup a LAMP stack from scratch, when you are new >to linux (new to the command line) and don't yet know the value of it >are daunting, it's a learning cliff that they have to climb before >they can do anything else. > >If they can start with a usable system and only dive in to the details >of LAMP after they learn that they can do this and see the results, it >will be much easier to get people started. > >David Lang
Cool David, Your boot-to-usb idea fulfills both of Keith's opposing objectives: 1) Gives good, safe environment for LAMPing 2) Easy to get into the game David can provide three images on his website: 1) Boot to UEFI 2) Boot to oldschool BIOS 3) Qemu bootable image (probably the same as the oldschool BIOS) This drives traffic to his website, eliminates the requirement for tire kickers to spend hours just to get into the game, and leaves open the later opportunity to do it the right way with a VM. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
