Re: preferred way to setup a LAMP stack on a laptop for development?

["Don Levey-7" <user=51@nabble.blu.org>]

 eric c wrote: 
>> I'm leaning towards purging any Ubuntu version of apache and mysql I 
>> might 
>> have, and then installing XAMPP. Does anyone have any advice or 
>> experience 
>> to share, or other packages to suggest? 
> 
> I've only tried XAMPP once and it was a while ago.  I hated it.  I 
> frequent a popular application's forum and occasionally somebody will 
> use XAMPP and have problems.  God forbid you try to use it in 
> production.  Maybe it's different now.  I don't know.  Quite frankly you 
> should should just be a stud and install apache, mysql and php via your 
> favorite package manager.  It's not that hard and neither is the basic 
> config.  To quote Sylvanus P. Thompson, what one fool can do so can 
> another.  I feel comfortable doing it on fedora, it's no big deal.  I'm 
> sure it's not much different on Ubuntu. 
>