[COLUG] Pesky Ubuntu problem

[Duane]

Tom Hanlon wrote:

> This is a VIRTUAL machine on my mac. Yes I suppose it could be a real
> server but by "my mac" I mean my laptop.

The links I gave you are for either vmware or qemu, it'll work in both,
although I only tested it on Linux and Windows I assume it'll also work
on a Mac.

> Lighthttpd means we would be running PHP as fastcgi or something.
> Perhaps a good idea but not the "standard" as of yet.

>From a php programmers perspective it actually "works" the same as the
module version in Apache, you don't call it like a CGI script under
apache etc etc etc.

> I like Debian myself but I just grabbed ubuntu from freeoszoo for the Q
> and Qemu emulator. It works well enough.

For server type stuff Debian and Ubuntu are almost identical however
Debian installs less things by default, Ubuntu are off on this trip
about giving you the full experience blah blah blah, when most of the
time I just want a stable, small foot print that I can build myself
without having stupid stuff installed that shouldn't be on a server.

> Life is funny that way. Soon MySQL will be the bloated overloaded DB and
> SQLlite will be the speedy DB .

For what I was doing I chose to do flat files, SQLite didn't offer much
except a little more bloat.

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