Get Slackware. Install it without X, kde, xfce, and the other guis. Fantastic for wed dev imho. ----- Reply message ----- From: "David S. Cargo" <escargo at skypoint.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: [tclug-list] Wanted: Good distro for VirtualBox to run WordPress Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 19:57 I want to create a sandbox system to experiment with WordPress. I've got a still-shiny Windows 8 laptop that I have installed VirtualBox on. I've been experimenting with some light distros (Puppy and SLAX) just to see how the run in the virtual environment (not so good with Puppy, and fine, but limited with SLAX). I also have an lubuntu 12.04 that runs fine. I used the Synaptic package manager to download and install a bunch of extra packages that are not part of the base install. I've got WordPress downloaded and installed, but not yet properly configured. (It doesn't seem to install itself "out of the box" and I still need to figure out how to get it connected with MySQL.) Are there better light-weight distros for this application? An easy to install WordPress might not be possible, but I thought I would ask. Any favorite distros for running in VirtualBox? Thanks. escargo _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130326/e59e0a27/attachment.html>