[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Todd Walton]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Brett Neese <brett at brettneese.com> wrote:

> what are your recommendations? my instinct was to just use Ubuntu, but I'm
> kind of looking for something a bit more bare-bones than Unity/Gnome 3.
>

Seems like any distro would be fine for web development.  For slimming down
the GUI, I think xfce is very usable.  Find a distro that fully supports
xfce.  If you liked Ubuntu then you could go with Xubuntu or Mint Xfce. I
really like Mint.

You could install something without a desktop manager (Debian would be a
good choice here, I'm sure) and then install the window manager of your
choice. Here's some info on window managers:
http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html

The advantage there is you that you put a little work into it, but then you
get a solid machine that does what you want and will serve you well for a
while. I'm thinking of switching back to Gentoo, but that's a learning
curve if you haven't used it before and I don't know how it's doing these
days.

--
Todd