What are you using for a development server?

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What are you using for a development server?

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I've been a fan of FreeBSD for a number of years, but it seems as though Zend has dropped support for FreeBSD.

It's a shame, I really like FreeBSD :(

I'm downloading Xubuntu right now to give it a go, what's your favorite flavor and why?
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ubuntu 9.10 apache2 mysq5something php5something
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You might get locked: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=63911

In any case, I use Debian 5.0 :)
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Ubuntu 9 running apache2 and php53 (at home) also MacOSX 10.6 (apache 2?, php53, mysql)

Windows XP running the latest XAMPP release (at work) with php5.2.x since for some unholy reason we won't upgrade our servers to 5.3.........
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We use Fedora, but I really don't think it's important if it's a Fedora or Ubuntu or something else. Pick the one you are working with.

P.S. Slackware seems to be more BSD-like
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I use Ubuntu (Kubuntu, actually) but it doesn't really matter. I chose it because my server is also my desktop computer when I'm at school. I'd still choose it for a simple server purely because it's so easy. It takes me about an hour total to install the OS, all drivers, all additional packages, and tweak everything as I like it, by adding additional PHP packages, installing SSH and FTP servers, SQL etc. That said, if you have more complex needs, or you will want to re-install a lot, I'd check out Fedora and Kickstart.

From any Ubuntu installation:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-gd php5-sqlite mysql ssh proftpd; sudo a2enmod userdir

And give it a few minutes. Enter the password once when the first command finishes. You've got yourself a testing server with PHP and MySQL, FTP and SSH, and you can just use your own user account by creating a public_html folder, adding your stuff, and seeing it online at http://my.ip.add.ress/~username/.
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I also use Kubuntu. It is my development workstation (running my IDE, DB tools, etc...) and my development server (Apache, MySQL, PHP).
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