distro for mySQL

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wingnuttzz

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part of my uni course work involves using mySQL and i want to be able to do it all on my laptop so i can work outside of class.

I will running the distro through VMWare on my laptop, which will have more than enough power to handle anything linux will through at it

What distro will be best for my requirements?

thanks
Grant
 
If your using VMware in Windows, can't you use xampp ? comes with a full Apache server and MySQL + phpymyadmin. Much easier TBH.

If its definately linux then probably Ubuntu :)
 
I have no experience of XAMPP.

Its just so I can do my course work, will be totally stand alone, not planning on uploading anything to webservers or anything at the moment.

The coursework comprises of creating a database using mySQL, then making a front end through HTML and PHP.

I was thinking of just using linux because if i was to the machines at uni in the labs they are all linux?
 
Just an educated guess here, but FreeBSD? Admittedly it's not technically Linux, but it has its advantages and works in much the same way.
 
Well it's a server style app so my automatic suggestion is CentOS but it depends what you know. If you've used ubuntu then debian will be more familiar and is as good for your purposes.

Then again if you're relatively inexperienced either fedora or Ubuntu could be a better choice as you'll find advice easier to come by online, neither would be used for servers in the business world but both have out of the box packages for mysql and everything else you'll need so don't worry too much about that.

I'd stick to one of those four myself, Arch is nice but if you actually want to achieve stuff rather than play you're better off with a well known distro. Comes down to whether you like yum or apt as a package manager reallly...
 
Given what you want it for I'd say just use Ubuntu Server edition in a VM. I've got a ESXi VM running it at home and it seems to run ok and handles the little mysql that the internal services require.
 
xampp will almost certainly be the easiest option as it won't involve installing another OS. Just download, install under windows and bingo.
 
bigredshark said:
Well it's a server style app so my automatic suggestion is CentOS but it depends what you know. If you've used ubuntu then debian will be more familiar and is as good for your purposes.

Then again if you're relatively inexperienced either fedora or Ubuntu could be a better choice as you'll find advice easier to come by online, neither would be used for servers in the business world but both have out of the box packages for mysql and everything else you'll need so don't worry too much about that.

I'd stick to one of those four myself, Arch is nice but if you actually want to achieve stuff rather than play you're better off with a well known distro. Comes down to whether you like yum or apt as a package manager reallly...
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I think it is centOS that the machines at the uni are running.

I have used ubuntu once, but it was just to "give it a shot" type thing.

Just looking for something that will do the job, so think i'll just get ubuntu

thanks
 
memyselfandi said:
Given what you want it for I'd say just use Ubuntu Server edition in a VM. I've got a ESXi VM running it at home and it seems to run ok and handles the little mysql that the internal services require.
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I'd be wary of ubuntu server, inspite of the name nobody serious is using it as a server OS (why would you? it's debian at the end of the day and at that point you as well use actual debian). If you just need it to work and don't care about what you might have to work with in the real world ubuntu server will be fine though.
 
If the uni are using centos then it makes sense to use the same. You might want to stick to the same version of mysql as them as well.
 
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