[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Brian]

I use ubuntu with Xfce, you can add bits and pieces as needed. Light 
weight, clean interface in my opinion.
  
 Another option I have done install "server" version ubuntu, IE no GUI, 
then installed Cinnamon desktop, very much like an XP\7 desktop but still 
relatively light weight.
  
  
  

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 From: "Todd Walton" <tdwalton at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 11:02 AM
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?   
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
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