[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

Brett Neese brett at brettneese.com
Tue Sep 2 09:43:31 CDT 2014


because i'm running it in a virtual machine.

and no, i won't dual boot.

Brett Neese
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
wrote:

> Why would you be already using RAM and CPU to run Windows? When i do web
> development Windows certainly isn't involved.
>
> And Sublime is still available for Linux, as far as i know. I almost
> bought a copy until i realized it isn't feature-complete (no printing
> support). I still check in on it every 6 months or so though.
>
> On 2014-08-29 at 11:32:50 Scott Yates wrote:
> > 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.
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