Is there any possibility to remove all GUI tools and leave only command-line tools?
I need quiskstart server environment to work on the project.
I work on Windows, because I can't work on Linux, because of my notebook 'features' (bugs with wifi in linux, can boot linux only with 2 GB RAM and not more). I'm using remote virtual server and Aptana Studio 3 to edit file via SFTP. It much more convenient then vi.
However there are some cases when I am offline, so I need to make the same, but on local environment. I tried to use virtual machines including Quickstart project, and can say it is real cool. However it is to slow, especially when running Eclipse. I want to use windows GUI with a linux server.
I've already have nice gui: Aptana, but I need the server.
Could you, please, make release of the server version of Quickstart with FTP/SFTP support? And can I help with that?
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Remove Ubuntu's GUI packages
This removes most of Ubuntu's GUI packages. It should retain LAMP and other changes made in Quickstart. It also installs SFTP and SSH support.
If anyone sees anything else that should be added to this package list, feel free to comment with additions (or subtractions). I haven't tested this, so if you try this make sure to comment and let us know how it goes.
Hi Dealancer
Quickstart may not be the best tool for that job.
You don't have to remove the GUI stuff to use ssh/ftp. But, do check the documentation for "bridged networking" for tips on how to setup the network correctly. You may have already done this.
Also consider upgrading your hardware to deal with performance or trying WAMP.
Good luck!
Mike
Another approach here could
Another approach here could be to represent the app server configs in a configuration management utility (Chef, Puppet, bcfg2, etc...); this is a big goal of the Drupal Vagrant Project where the VM is a means to be the closest representation of a server environment by controlling the server options in config management. I think that this could serve as a nice combination of both proven scalability options (with configs like Mercury in the Pantheon project) and easy of usability (particularly with VMs - eg. Quickstart).
Quickstart has almost all options in shell scripts (http://drupalcode.org/project/quickstart.git/tree) it seems migrating these to config management options would afford this flexibility (and actually in development - should allow for an ecosystem of server configurations; like distributions for Drupal, but at the LAMP stack level).
(To be clear: intentions here are not to compete, but rather facilitate ease of use through different environment configurations; it is clear ease of use through MAMP/WAMP is a poor decision as it is not very representative of the end production environment the app will be deployed on. I think another distinguishing point, although more subtle, is where the development environment might have development tools (debug, perf. tools, etc..), production most likely won't).
Hey Christian, I sent you a
Hey Christian, I sent you a private message about collaborating. If you didn't get it, message me and I'll send it by email :-)
Mike
Similar goal/posting
Oops, I posted my QuickStart no GUI (ubuntu server) build at http://groups.drupal.org/node/133279#comment-489719. So far, all works well and stable. Drush seems to work as it should. Took it to the next level... http://drupal.org/sandbox/defconjuan/1157038