[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Crouse]

I've been using Mint and Cinnamon for over 3 years now, wouldn't trade it
for any others for development now.  Hate Ubuntu's weird interface, and
even though I LOVE Arch Linux, it isn't stable enough to suit me unless I
devote way to many man hours to it.  Mint combines the best of Ubuntu, and
Cinnamon.  Going forward, I think that Mint will have an easier upgrade
path that the previous versions had.

At home I run Mint on a T400 Lenovo ... not a speedy machine by any means,
but with the SSD in the laptop, it's snappy enough for anything I need.

At work, I run it on a I7 laptop as a virtual machine in VmWare
Workstation, on Windows 7.  (Similar to what your wanting to do)

The only time I see the windows systems, is when I have to boot up... other
than that, I try hard to believe it doesn't exist on my work laptop ;)
With my laptop dock I have Mint running on three screens, with one turned
vertical for coding.  I have my own VmWare Workstation License, which was
sort of expensive to start with, but has proven to be worth having.  I also
use VmWare Workstation on my home laptop to manage my VmWare ESXI server...
so, it has more than one use.

I actually prefer to use my home laptop most of the time, as it is attached
to my home NAS, giving me pretty much unlimited storage, 9+ TB's free space
still, and the data is "safer" than being just on my laptop.  I don't think
you'll go wrong with Mint, but you should really check out the Mint
desktop, having the capability to quickly switch to multiple other desktops
is pretty nice too, one of the main reasons I'm using Mint too, that and it
takes less resources than Gnome, or KDE.

Good luck, and hope Mint works out as good for you as it has for me.


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> I think what Scott was getting at was that if you are trying to have a
> look at how the backend is going to function when testing your code, you
> should put the code on a virtual machine that has the same OS and installed
> software that the production server has.  You can always do the development
> on the Mint Linux VM, then start up a small VM with the same OS/packages
> that the dev machine has to test out how the code actually functions.
>
> Of course, if the dev machine has a half terabyte of RAM and 4 6-core
> Xeons, you aren't going to have some of the errors on the dev machine that
> you might run into on the test VM (like memory or CPU limits).  Of course,
> if your code gobbles up all the memory on your VM or slows it to a crawl,
> then it might actually help you find issues that you wouldn't otherwise
> discover on the monster server hardware. :)
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> Sent from my ASUS Transformer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Neese <brett at brettneese.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 9:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?
>
> scott - that sounds like a lot of work, haha. plus having a virtual machine
> makes it easier for me to cognitively separate different things (this
> machine is a school and work machine first, fun machine second.)
>
> ...
>
> Brett Neese
> 563-210-3459
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:52 AM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Consider matching your dev box as close as you can to your prod
> > environment. If prod is running CentOS or RedHat, then you should use
> > CentOS on your dev, not Ubuntu or Debian.
> > On Aug 29, 2014 10:08 AM, "Brett Neese" <brett at brettneese.com> wrote:
> >
> > > hey folks,
> > >
> > > i recently replaced my MBA with a Surface (gasp) which I actually love
> > > (gasp gasp).
> > >
> > > however, i can't do web development the way i'm used to in a no-*nix
> > > environment, so I'm looking to get a Linux box running in a Virtualbox.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > i primarily do python/php and am looking for something that'll make
> that
> > > life as easy as possible, especially should i run into problems.
> > >
> > > let me know!
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Brett Neese
> > > 563-210-3459
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