Need Help Choosing Distro

themrrobert · 01-31-2012, 12:09 PM

Going to be setting up SugarCRM on a LAMP server.

It has a DVD drive, but less than 1gB of ram, i believe it has 512mB.

I need the server to support full lamp stack, with apache & php.

A lightweight desktop like enlightenment or lxde would be nice.

Any ideas?

snowpine · 01-31-2012, 12:25 PM

Any Linux distro will work as a LAMP server. No desktop environment is necessary (servers are run in text mode).

Ubuntu is popular and well-documented: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/index.html

sycamorex · 01-31-2012, 12:54 PM

As snowpine mentioned, anything will do. You seem to be running Debian. As you're familiar with it, you can install debian stable (no need for X) and you're ready to go. Other popular server distros include CentOS or Slackware. It's up to you any will do just fine.

themrrobert · 01-31-2012, 02:07 PM

Thanks guys, I was hoping there was a ready-made, light weight distro explicitly for server apps. And yes I am aware that servers run in text mode, but I like to have a gui to occasionally configure them with. (especially initial config).

Also, I like having the X libraries installed for running custom X programs on the server thru a pipe to a local X server, but I digress.

If anyone else knows of a distro that would suit me, I'm still open to ideas

snowpine · 01-31-2012, 02:40 PM

You might find the comments in this thread helpful:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-year-919880/

(Debian won last year's poll)

DavidMcCann · 02-01-2012, 11:46 AM

With CentOS (the most widely used web-site server), web server is one of the options at installation. You can then add a gui from the repository. The last time I tried (CentOS 6.1) Xfce was broken, but I think Fluxbox is available.

Another idea would be to get the LXDE or Fluxbox version of Salix (software from Slackware, so you know it's stable), do the "basic install" for OS and GUI, and then add AMP.

memilanuk · 02-02-2012, 09:42 PM

Try TurnKey Linux (www.turnkeylinux.org)- small downloads (150-200MB) of either iso install images or VM images ready to install on VMware, Virtualbox, etc. They have a couple dozen 'appliances', ranging from LAMP (all set up with Webmin & phpMyAdmin) to various database, fileserver, wiki, and gallery appliances.

devilboy09 · 02-04-2012, 01:57 PM

centOS is the best choice