[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Matt Stanton]

I would also recommend Xubuntu or Mint (and you can replace the MATE or Cinnamon desktop environment with XFCE on Mint fairly easily, since they are a direct offshoot of Ubuntu).  Xubuntu has a fairly feature-rich XFCE setup.  The only distro that I have used with better XFCE support is Arch, but Arch is not the distro to choose if you don't want to spend a couple of days really learning Linux and getting it set up the way you like... I love it, but it takes a good day or two worth of trudging through the Arch wiki and manually installing and configuring your software.

I've been using XFCE/Ubuntu on a little ARM dev board that has a 1.7GHz Cortex-A9 quad-core SoC, and XFCE runs like a dream on it.  Using it in a VM on that Core-i5 Surface (right?) should be very responsive.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

Personally I would stick with a server (no GUI) linux install and use
windows as the "window manager".

You can get a ssh shell into your linux vm, and edit files in Sublime for
instance.

The point being:  You are already using the ram and cpu to run windows, so
make the most of it.


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:28 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I also like KDE, it's richer and better looking than XFCE, but much less
> resource intensive than Gnome/Unity.
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:13 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, David Michael wrote:
> >
> > > You could try looking at one of the fedora spins if you don't want
> Gnome
> > 3.
> > > https://spins.fedoraproject.org/. Debian is a good choice too but you
> > may
> > > want to use debian testing rather than stable to get more up to date
> > > versions of php and python.
> > >
> > On the contrary, .. it's often better to stay with stable for most webdev
> > projects, .. as those versions are much more likely to be found in any
> > server environment (unless you custom build).
> >
> >         Lee
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