[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Dave Hala]

I run windows 7 and virtualbox.  When I want to try out something new,
a new version, a new distro, etc., I just create a new VM....

I'm a little old school and I use Centos with KDE.... If was going to
switch, I'd roll with Ubuntu.

:) Dave

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
> 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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