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

["Brendan Kidwell-2" <user=1552@nabble.blu.org>]

 My original on this topic may have looked like I was implying I'm a web 
development newbie and I've never built any web sites. Let me clarify that: 
I know all about apache, and I run my own personal web site on Dreamhost, a 
shared hosting facility. I know how to build web SITES. What I'm new at is 
building systems/applications/whatever in PHP from scratch. 

On 2/27/08, eric c <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> 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.