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Posted by fmb_3 on September 25, 2010 at 5:36am

I'm diving in!
So I use VMs as test beds.
What flavor of Linux would be best to have my hand at Drupal, CiviCRM and UberCart?

I've tried CentOS, Fedora, RHEL (no longer access to it, old job) and SuSE.

Any recommendations?
Going to carve out some time this or next weekend, build the VM and dive in

Thanks

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Drubuntu (aka Drupal+Ubuntu)

Posted by jrockowitz on September 25, 2010 at 7:54am
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I just did a Drupal installation on Fedora 13 VM and realized that I made the right choice using Ubuntu as my Drupal development OS.

The bottom line is there is just more documentation available for Ubuntu. The Ubuntu website is running Drupal. There is even a project dedicated to Drubuntu (http://drupal.org/project/drubuntu)

Here some of the URLs I used to figure how best to install and configure Drupal on Ubuntu.

http://www.drupalcoder.com/story/650-preparing-ubuntu-server-for-hosting...

http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/345

One final note, is slightly older versions of Drupal are available in the package system repositories for Ubuntu and Fedora (they might also be in CentOS and REHL) So if you are really feeling lazy sudo apt-get install drupal or yum install drupal will immediately set you up with a Drupal site.

Good luck,
~jake

I agree with this whole

Posted by orbgasm on September 25, 2010 at 6:39pm
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I agree with this whole heartedly; the documentation is much, much better.

I'm with Jake on this one

Posted by fathershawn on September 25, 2010 at 12:28pm
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I've used both CentOS and Ubuntu and found Ubuntu much easier to manage and keep current.

Drupaling in NYC since 2009!

oh oh me too

Posted by javlinsharp on September 25, 2010 at 3:35pm
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I messed around with a few diff distros before settling on Ubuntu. I find its ease of use to be 2nd to none. If you dont like to be saddled with Sys Admin tasks, this is def the way to go. It is installs easy, fits on a CD, has a pretty cool App Store like interface for new programs. Ive even turned on some of my non-computer friends who got stuck w/o an operating system on some old computers.

Only 1 thing to watch out for, the upgrades db can become corrupted from time to time. It happened to me once, and to a friend a few times. It can be cleaned up, but its a real pain.

My personal dev env is Ubuntu host running Virtual Box and guests of Ubuntu, and Windows with a little xampp for the Drupal stack. Works Great, I can take snapshots of the guests, roll back as desired, and the price is right :-D

Acquia's DAMP is also useful

Posted by jrockowitz on September 25, 2010 at 8:13pm
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As soon as you mentioned XAMPP it reminded how useful Acquia's DAMP stack was for just getting a very quick Drupal installation up and running with some pretty reasonable (L|M|W)AMP configuration settings.

For example Acquia's DAMP stack sets PHP's memory limit to 128M while most (L|M|W)AMP stacks are installed with a very low PHP memory limit like 16M, which almost immediately cause memory issues with Drupal.

http://acquia.com/blog/acquia-stack-installer-aka-damp

~jake