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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)
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I have a site that accumulated high traffic so Im thinking of moving to VPS hosting.
but I am a complete newbie with linux. so I have some questions:
what is the recommended OS for VPS? most searches show CENTOS or
Debian.
What platform is recommended? 64bit / 32bit ?
what are the basic installation necessary for an operational VPS (web server) ?
what are the extra recommended installation?
I want to first try to install locally on virtualbox, so any suggestions for a good guide will be appreciated.
10x.
What is the recommended OS for VPS? most searches show CENTOS or
Debian.
Both CentOS and Debian are excellent operating systems, if you choose either of them, you won't go wrong. Debian is certainly rocksolid OS with great security track-records. However, Since you are new with Linux machines, you would need some sort of control panel to manage the Linux machine.Hence, I would recommend CentOS box with cPanel for easy startup.
What platform is recommended? 64bit / 32bit ?
Of course 64 Bit Operating system.
what are the basic installation necessary for an operational VPS (web
server) ? What are the extra recommended installation?
cPanel will include all necessary tools and software to run web server. However, if you wish you can install firewall or other required tools through terminal. Also, you can try out CentOS in virtual box easily, for cPanel, you would need license and static IP address.
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I want to convert my old PC into linux system and use it for Android code development. The resource is very limited (256 MG) memory. Currently, PC is running on XP SP3. What is the available OS for this PC? Currently, I am using a Win8 PC for android development. It seems that I need to download some codes from google web site and all instructions are linux command line based. I may use this old turd as a code repository so that I can study other people codes.
Any suggestions?
I would either recommend Debian if you want a stable distribution or if you need bleeding
edge software Arch Linux.
The wiki of Arch Linux is to my opinion better than the one of Ubuntu and Arch lets you do everything as you want it.
If you need to get started fast you can also go for Xubuntu (http:// xubuntu.org) as it is made for old hardware.
All three should run on your computer. So its just a matter of what you prefer.
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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 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 want to install a virtual linux system within my Windows7 operating system. I was thinking of using Cygwin. Any suggestions of other good/better softwares to use?
Thanks for the help
For running UNIX-y apps within Windows, Cygwin is pretty much the de-facto standard. The programs that are installable through Cygwin are essentially clones of the Linux ones, but compiled under Windows so that they run natively. Note though that you can't run a Linux program under Cygwin.
On the other hand if you want to run native Linux programs or a Linux distribution like Ubuntu, you'll need something like VirtualBox.
I cannot help but mention the amazing JavaScript PC emulator running Linux .. http://bellard.org/jslinux/ since you do not specify what you are trying to do with Linux, that may well answer your needs.