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[nycphp-talk] MAMP or XAMPP ?

Ajai Khattri ajai at bitblit.net
Tue Apr 27 13:12:19 EDT 2010


On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Anthony Wlodarski wrote:

> I would never recommend that on Ubuntu or a Debain package based systems.
> Use "sudo tasksel" and then select "LAMP Server".  Tasksel is a package
> management tool for the meta packages that point to the most recent version
> of the software that exists in the stack.  That way you don't have to piece
> together PHP5, MySQL, and Apache and their latest versions.  Since learning
> about tasksel I have been loving Ubuntu 9.10 server edition and rolling out
> new instances.

Another way to go (if you need lots of different environments) is to use 
Ubuntu in a virtual environment. Ive used VirtualBox in the past. VMware 
Fusion is also very decent in Mac.


-- 
Aj.




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