distro for mySQL

[wingnuttzz]

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

 

[wingnuttzz]

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?

 

[wingnuttzz]

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...

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