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I am fairly of familiar with Ubuntu and I have used it a lot in the past for programming purposes, but right now I would like to try something different. Instead of doing a dual boot on my computer, I am going to do my PHP development in a Virtual Machine, probably using VMWare or whatever.
The problem is, that with only 4GB of RAM, it seems like recent versions of Ubuntu are a bit too heavy to run really smoothly on this computer. So instead, I am searching for a Linux system that can easily run with only 1/2 or 1 GB of RAM assigned to it.
What would you suggest for this?
I'm not really sure if it makes a difference, but here's a list of the things I'll really need to be using in it:
apache2
php5
php5-memcache
php5-sqlite
memcached
postgresql
php5-pgsql
phppgadmin
I understand that this is not really the typical kind of questions you find on stackoverflow, but I'm very certain that it may be useful to somebody someday.
Take a look at Vagrant. It will share your current directory with the guest. So you use your native editing tools and your native browser to test things. That way the VM stays small with no GUI.
I recommend Puppy Linux if you're looking for a lighter Linux distribution.
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/MinimumSystemRequirements
http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm
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I am a Windows 7 user and now I want to use linux. However I am beginner for linux. Currently I have linux mint in a usb and load it from there. The problem is, it doesn't save stuff like everytime I have to enter my wifi password, or change the default search to google, etc etc. Now I am thinking of installing ubuntu alongside windows. Now after googling a little I realized that I can do it in 2 ways: Using a windows installer, or Using something called a virtual box. My question is, which option should I choose and why? What is a virtual box anyway? Also, is this the right link? I need the 64 bit version. Shall I choose the first one?
virtual box allows you to run an OS over the one you are currently working in. You must download virtual box for windows those links are for linux,ubuntu etc.. You might wanna use http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.3.6/VirtualBox-4.3.6-91406-Win.exe link instead.
The issue with a virtual machine is that it is running your native OS and another "virtual" OS; as you can imagine, this can be slow. Booting up your virtual OS also takes longer seeing as you functionally need to boot two OSs rather than one.
In terms of dual booting (installing an OS alongside your native OS -- in this case Windows), the resultant OS typically will run faster and won't be bogged down as much. If you have a lot of RAM you might not notice the speed loss though. That being said, it is much easier to install multiple virtual machines than it is to install multiple OSs; your hard drive won't be chaotically partitioned since virtual machines don't need separate partitions.
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I would want to install a free Linux OS in my laptop. I am not a techie. I am looking for Linux OS which will have inbuilt features for Fn(Function) keys. Please suggest me if you know any particular Linux OS with these features.
This OS have a laptop version. Easy to use, and supports the newest hardwares:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
There are so many choices. Ubuntu is the defacto first distro, although I don't really care for it ever since they went to Unity and Gnome 3. I would rather use Mint with Cinnamon.
A good start is to look at something like Linux Watch http://distrowatch.com/ and see what distros sound good to you, then burn the live disk and check it out. If you like it you can then install it.
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I was wondering if there is such service, either free or very cheap, where I can use a Linux machine for a few days to install and run 2 programs on it. Really all I need is to debug my ANSI C application with Valgrind debugger which only runs on Linux and I don't have access to it right now for various reasons.
So all I need is this:
being able to compile/install valgrind and my prog with gcc
run valgrind and my prog
ftp/sftp, or any other method as long I can send or download the files on machine
I thought of doing it over sourceforge but my software is not anything useful to humanity, it is for a scientific research, doing some math calculations...
Maybe anyone of you know of such service?
Or knows where I can use a Linux machine once in a while?
Please let me know
thanks
maxim
You can set up an Ubuntu micro instance for free on Amazon's infrastructure: http://aws.amazon.com/free/
But really, I would rather recommend you installing Linux on your own, you can even do it on a USB memory stick (pendrive).
The AWS micro instances are free for I think a year. Question is whether they are sufficient enough to do what you want, though besides that if you only need a few days perhaps the hourly paid instances are also cheap enough.
Another option would be to run a LiveCD in either a VM or physical machine and do it from there.
Assuming you're using Windows, you can download VMware Player for free.
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Then download whatever Linux distro ISO image you'd like to use and open it in VMware Player. It will run like you installed Linux on your machine.
If you're using a Mac, I'm out of my element but I think someone told me before Macs run on top of Linux so I think you can open a terminal and run/test/develop your program.
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I been trying to install Ubuntu for my new laptop for ages now. Always getting the same error the very last second of the install.
Here is a screenshot and a the log of the install.
LOG : http://pastebin.com/sHr1x7C7
Screenshot: http://i40.tinypic.com/160vi88.jpg
Used the windows installer. Tried to reboot multiple times. But the OS is not showing up on the list on boot.
First, the distrib is ubuntu, not ubunto.\
Secondly, I recommand you to use a live CD or a USB stick if you want to try the system, and if it works well and/or you like it, install the system using that same medium.
There are plenty of howto on the internet, so I won't explain here, but the principle is to reduce windows partition (or allocating a full hard drive for linux) and manage the partition scheme throw the installer.
Hope this helps, at least a little :-)
First, it's ubuntu, not ubunto. From my google searches your problem is a pretty common one with no apparent solution. Burn the ISO to CD and install that way, it is the most reliable method. If you cannot do that, try the USB or netboot options, but the CD is the best way.
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In terms of Webserver and low package size installation.
To be honest, the best distro for VMWare is the one the admin has the most experience with. With the GUI stuff all disabled I've not found any difference in performance between RedHat, Centos and Ubuntu when running VMWare.
Picking the distro that you can adminster easiest will save you hassle. If you already have a few linux systems using the same flavour makes the admins job a lot easier.
It is not clear to me if you are asking about the distro for the Vmware host, or for the guest operating system that will be your web server.
I generally really like Debian or Debian based distributions. But as far as Vmware is concerned Centos or anything really should work.
If you are looking at setting up many vms on this server you might want to look at using the bare-metal hypervisor product that has been released as a free product. (Vmware ESX)