Indeed. You could skip the vm thing altogether, and just install WAMP on win8. Gives you everything you need without killing your resources. After all it's a sand box. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Erik Mitchell" <erik.mitchell at gmail.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: [tclug-list] Wanted: Good distro for VirtualBox to run WordPress Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2013 06:11 The distro shouldn't matter at all -- the only hard requirements for Wordpress are PHP and MySQL. You can run those on Linux, Windows, Mac OS, BSD, and probably others as well. On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:57 PM, David S. Cargo <escargo at skypoint.com> wrote: > 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 -- Erik K. Mitchell erik.mitchell at gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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/20130326/5a85f547/attachment.html>