Virtualbox image - plug & play Drupal Development and debugging using FOSS

Here's a prebuilt virtualbox environment for development. Works on any platform. I think this is a great way to introduce people to developing Drupal with FOSS tools. if nothing else it provides a debugging environment plug-and-play.

What is it?

its a Virtualbox VDI image (which has a smaller footprint than VMware) using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.

The the image of course (like VMware) works on any platform, Windows, Mac, *nix. I think anything with a JAVA JRE stack.

The setup includes:

• LAMP - using xampp - for a cleaner / easier interface for noobs, and includes phpmyadmin
• Inkscape (great for web development if you hate photoshop/gimp - but like fireworks. similarly intuitive, but limited bitmap)
• Geany (great GTK based minimal IDE - but overhead of a notepad application)
• EclipsePHP 3.4
• Xdebug configured for remote debugging
• Firefox with Firebug, FirePHP, FireFTP
• Drupal 5, 6, HEAD virtual development environments
• Ubuntu 8.04 vanilla - minus openoffice, & evolution email - in order to make image smaller.

a copy is available from torrent download: drubuntu-ladrupal-v1.7z.4479567.TPB.torrent

• you'll need virtualbox, which is also open source. (pickup on the theme yet? ;-)
• Then setup the VDI as a hard drive.
• Login usr/pwd is: ladrupal
• There is a full readme on the desktop once you login.
• (um, ya, LADrupal rocks! ;-)