[Cialug] good linux distro for web dev?

[Scott Yates]

lol, I get your point there Dave!  8)


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:56 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> moot
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> > I ran Rhel ws and various versions of Centos for nearly ten years as
> > my primary OS up until about two (3?) years ago.  I then switched to
> > Windows 7 as the primary (host) OS. The reason? Simplicity and
> > lazyiness. It was much easier to run the windows applications I needed
> > to run on windows and then virtualize the Linux machines.  Why?  No
> > hassles or any weird incompatibilities, No wasted time trying figure
> > out some obscure bug or trying to find a work around for something
> > that doesn't work.
> >
> > Ram, CPU and disk space is cheap nowadays, so "wasting" resources
> > running windows is a mute point.
> >
> > Its bittersweet to see how stable and hassle free W7 has been.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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