Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-23 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Saturday 23 June 2007 04:29, Tijnema wrote: 3) This is basically the same as point 1, but I think it's still worth making. I don't know about anyone else, but this is 1 of 14 lists I subscribe to. Keeping track of what's happening in all current threads in all those lists is not

RE: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Warren Vail
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro Yeah.. I'm aware. As I stated in my original email: Ideally I'd like to keep using my traditional Windows apps to do development... I'm comfortable moving around in linux, but the tools and OS I choose to use are all Windows-centric

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Tijnema
.. Tijnema ps. Please don't top post! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:41 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro Yeah.. I'm aware. As I stated in my original

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread tg-php
First, funny that you say that from a Gmail account, where top-posting is encouraged by the mail system. Second, and not to get into a big discussion about top vs bottom posting, but I top-post because typically if I'm involved in a conversation, I know what's been said already and don't want

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Lucas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestions.. but again, the question wasn't what distro of linux to use. And I don't mind upgrading things. The question is what would someone recommend for a really small distro of linux preferably with the bare essentials + apache, mysql, php and

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Daniel Brown
My thoughts exactly, TG. I was just thinking about that this morning, in fact --- exactly the stuff you said. That aside, I started using a DSL/Knoppix distro to modify to automatically install a server environment as opposed to the desktop environment. As such, without the need for a

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread tg-php
Excellent information Jim! Thanks a ton! I really wish I knew linux more intimately so I knew what was a vital organ and what was an appendix :) Your suggestions sound like exactly what I'm looking for. Greatly appreciated! Actually.. one question. Won't it try to set up a swap partition?

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Lucas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent information Jim! Thanks a ton! I really wish I knew linux more intimately so I knew what was a vital organ and what was an appendix :) Your suggestions sound like exactly what I'm looking for. Greatly appreciated! Actually.. one question. Won't it try

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Robert Cummings
Don't you punks read the archives?? http://marc.info/?l=php-generalm=106579709910174w=2 http://marc.info/?l=php-generalm=107902806617669w=2 http://marc.info/?l=php-generalm=109556769132522w=2 There's always someone who gets their nickers all bunched up with respect to top posting :B

RE: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread tg-php
Thanks for the suggestions.. but again, the question wasn't what distro of linux to use. And I don't mind upgrading things. The question is what would someone recommend for a really small distro of linux preferably with the bare essentials + apache, mysql, php and samba. Failing that, I'll

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Lucas
Jim Lucas wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent information Jim! Thanks a ton! I really wish I knew linux more intimately so I knew what was a vital organ and what was an appendix :) one other thing. fedore + yum will do all the work for you with regards to decencies and system

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Tijnema
A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion. Q: Why is top posting bad? This explains everything ^^^ On 6/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, funny that you say that from a Gmail account, where top-posting is encouraged by the mail system. All email clients

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Lucas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent information Jim! Thanks a ton! I really wish I knew linux more intimately so I knew what was a vital organ and what was an appendix :) Your suggestions sound like exactly what I'm looking for. Greatly appreciated! Actually.. one question. Won't it try

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread tg-php
Thanks again for the info, Jim. will look into the 'install to flash drive' information. Technically that's not what I'm doing, just want to store the virtual machine on the flash drive, but the installation instructions should be tight enough to be pertinent still. I think you got close

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread tg-php
logic is subjective. When I read Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion., I already knew what you were talking about without having to read the question.. because I knew what was being discussed in this thread. If it wasn't an answer to my original question, then it was about

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Stut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: logic is subjective. When I read Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion., I already knew what you were talking about without having to read the question.. because I knew what was being discussed in this thread. If it wasn't an answer to my original

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Tijnema
On 6/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: logic is subjective. When I read Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion., I already knew what you were talking about without having to read the question.. because I knew what was being discussed in this thread. If it wasn't

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-22 Thread Tijnema
On 6/22/07, Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: logic is subjective. When I read Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion., I already knew what you were talking about without having to read the question.. because I knew what was being discussed in this thread.

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-21 Thread Daniel Brown
On 6/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, done all my googling and experimenting, now I'm tossing it to you guys. Can anyone recommend a small, no frills, LAMP-centric linux package/distro? What I'm doing is setting up a test/development environment in a VMWare virtual

Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-21 Thread tg-php
Yeah, I took a quick look at Damn Small Linux. And have been playing around with Puppy Linux (which is pretty cool too). I may end up using one of those. Wanted to see if there was a distro with everything built into it already (Damn Small seems to have a lot of average user apps and not

RE: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-21 Thread Warren Vail
Did you know that VM-ware actually runs under RH linux? Warren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:16 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro Yeah, I took

RE: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:05 -0700, Warren Vail wrote: Did you know that VM-ware actually runs under RH linux? Doesn't it run under pretty much every OS? Cheers, Rob. -- .. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com |

RE: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro

2007-06-21 Thread tg-php
: Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:16 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Small LAMP install/distro Yeah, I took a quick look at Damn Small Linux. And have been playing around with Puppy Linux (which is pretty cool too). I may end up using one of those. Wanted