I guess I'll try again. I haven't installed linux in years. I've only used AWS and I'm spoiled. I know it should be dead easy but I spent a half-day going in circles trying to get SSH to work, etc.
I wish there was a simple server virtual image to use in virtualbox. What would be awesome is to run EC2 images in my local PC. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, JC de Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a number of servers on AWS for my day job. For my weekend > projects > > I need a free dev environment. My wife doesn't like spending money. > > > > I'm sure I can find a solution. I'm working with webfaction now to see > if > > they can donate the hosting. > > > > I spent a half-day trying to set up my dev environment in virtualbox on > my > > local PC. But all I could find were ubuntu desktops and I just want a > > headless server with SSH. That is all I'm familiar with. I tried to set > > one up myself but it was a disaster. > > > Here's the page for the server download: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server > > Although I'd suggest compiling your own couchdb, since the only one > available from the repo is version 1.0.1. I'm sure there's a ppa somewhere > for a more up-to-date version, but compiling on ubuntu it is fairly > trivial. > > -- > JC de Villa >
