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Looking for a LAMP distro

From:  havoc <havoc@harrisdev.com>
To:  letters@lwn.net
Subject:  Looking for a LAMP distro
Date:  Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:50:09 -0700

A lot of attention has been given to the huge group of independent 
developers and companies that create a huge volume of Linux software 
that is Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP centered.  O'Reilly has 
created a seperate web page dedicated to those people/projects.  What I 
don't get is why Red Hat, SuSE or Mandrake don't have a single-CD distro 
aimed at supporting this crowd.

As a LAMP developer, I would love to point people intersted in my 
software toward a LAMP distro and say, "If you're intested in this 
software, but don't have a Linux computer, just download this distro, 
install it and then install our software over it."  To my way of 
thinking, this small, "specialized" server distro would reqire very 
little in the way of additional maintenance cost for any of the 
established Linux distro companies, and provide an excellent "gateway 
Linux" to get whole companies hooked on thier product.

Jody Harris
Realization Systems, Inc.
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http://www.realizationsystems.com/ - changing the way people communicate
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Looking for a LAMP distro

Posted Nov 7, 2002 19:51 UTC (Thu) by steveha (guest, #3876) [Link]

I am not aware of a distro that matches your needs. But I do have a suggestion.

The PGI project is a GUI installer for Debian. It is very customizable; the goal was to create an installer "platform". Using PGI, it should be possible to make an installer that sets up Debian with just the packages you want. Debian's stable branch makes an excellent server OS.

And you hope this new distro could be a gateway to Linux inside organizations; with Debian, trying out new software is easy. Just "apt-get foo" to automatically download and install foo. (I feel like a commercial: "But wait, there's more... *now* how much would you pay?!?" :-)

http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/


Consider e-smith

Posted Nov 10, 2002 0:09 UTC (Sun) by mceesay (guest, #2806) [Link]

The closest thing to a LAMP distro (if I take your meaning correctly) I can think of is e-smith http://www.e-smith.org aka Mitel SME Server. It is essentially a stripped down server oriented version of Red Hat. As such, it comes with Apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP all installed from a single CD, an ISO for which you can download from the website.

It designed to be installed/administered by people with little or no Linux experience.

Regards,
Mamading Ceesay.

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