Here is a link to instructions I've put together for the development platform I am currently using:<br><br><a href="http://dev.antoinesolutions.com/free-open-source-php-ide-fedora-13">http://dev.antoinesolutions.com/free-open-source-php-ide-fedora-13</a><br>
<br>This setup uses Fedora which has been OK, but I am working on a new development platform for Aegir that will use Debian... not sure when I'll be finished.<br><br>-- <br>Good luck,<br><br>Antoine<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Victor Kane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victorkane@gmail.com">victorkane@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Two other alternatives:<div><br></div><div>1. Get an old PC/laptop nobody uses and stick Linux on it, with a minimum LAMP stack and Drupal, make a little network and you're all set. An old laptop would do great.</div>
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2. Turn your old clunker into a thin client and get a VPS on Linode or similar and put your head in the clouds. Get a decent internet connection and you're all set.</div><div>3. Back up everything, install Ubuntu on your old clunker and run windows in Vbox on top of Ubuntu. It'll still be slow, but not as slow as now (worst alternative).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Victor Kane</div><div><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar" target="_blank">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a></div><div><a href="http://projectflowandtracker.com" target="_blank">http://projectflowandtracker.com</a><div>
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On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:11 AM, António P. P. Almeida <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:appa@perusio.net" target="_blank">appa@perusio.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On 11 Set 2010 04h44 WEST, <a href="mailto:jeff@ayendesigns.com" target="_blank">jeff@ayendesigns.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> I'm curious to hear what others are using as a development<br>
> platform. I'm dying a slooooooow motion death on mine. I have a 2GHz<br>
> dual-core laptop with 3Gb of memory running Vista. I decided I<br>
> wanted to develop on Linux, so I'm running Vbox with Ubuntu 10.4 as<br>
> the guest, with 1.5Gb of memory and 50Gb of disk (only using about<br>
> 8) alloted to it.<br>
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</div>With that machine and modern OS there's no need to buy<br>
anything. Windows as a development platform is rather poor. Unless<br>
you're developing .NET stuff. Get a UNIX OS. It's older (70s tech)<br>
than Windows (80s tech) but a much more solid platform. Completely<br>
different approach, the command line is one of its greatest assets<br>
IMHO.<br>
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Install Debian Squeeze and say goodbye to most of your problems. I'm<br>
in a machine with less power than yours, running several Drupal dev<br>
installs, firewall, MTA, with no problems. I dumped Apache some time<br>
ago and run nginx exclusively.<br>
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> As I type this message, the letters appear a second or two after<br>
> I've typed them (thankfully I'm a touch typer and it buffers). Don't<br>
> even ask about running update.php or bringing up the modules<br>
> page...several minutes each. In looking at the resource monitor,<br>
> it's not memory (no paging is going on) but the CPU is pegged. All I<br>
> have running is firefox, chrome and thunderbird at the<br>
> moment. Jedit, which is much lighter than JavaBeans, etc., runs<br>
> painfully slow too.<br>
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</div>Drop Firefox and get Chromium. The new 6 beta release is a good deal<br>
faster than the previous 5.0.375, so it seems. The chromium browser<br>
inspector is roughly at par with firebug.<br>
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