[BUGS] Really small distro

[HarryWoodward-Clarke]

Hi Joshua,

>
> Apologies for not outlining my goals in the original post. I have just
> started as a Junior Unix Administrator & am running Windows XP on my new
> laptop.
>
> My reason for running a VM is because I dont have a sandbox system to write
> scripts etc in, but I also want to run a small wiki (Dokuwiki) for my notes
> & stuff for my time here.

Ok... rather than going to the 'hassle' and cpu/memory/disk expense of  
running a VM - why not install something like EasyPHP or Web Developer  
Suite or WAMP Server on the machine, all three have Apache httpd /  
PHP5 / MySQL and should satisfy Dokuwiki's requirements.

hth,

.h

>
> Until the day when I can install FBSD on my laptop, this is as close as I
> will get I suppose.
>
> Cheers guys,
>
> Josh.
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Andrew Reilly <areilly at bigpond.net.au>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:15:39PM +1100, Joshua Bromfield wrote:
>> > I am looking to run a small web server in a VM on my desktop here at
>> work.
>>
>> As a rough guess, you want to do this because your desktop is
>> Windows, and you don't trust the windows-native web servers,
>> or they don't do what you want in some way?  As Edwin says,
>> if you're already running FreeBSD, then jails are a very good
>> simulation.  Personally, an ordinary Unix process is a good
>> enough model for a virtual machine for my purposes: that's what
>> operating systems are for!
>>
>> > I
>> > dont want anything like GUI or any other novelties for that matter, it
>> just
>> > has to be terminal & capable of running apache or lighttpd.
>> >
>> > Are you guys aware of any small distributions I can install without all
>> the
>> > garbage that goes with it?
>> >
>> > In my searches on Google I have found Damn Small Linux (DSL), it looks
>> like
>> > its ok, but I figured I'd ask you first.
>>
>> If you really want a small OS in a VM, then you can get
>> arbitrarily close with FreeBSD, particularly if you build
>> something out of nanoBSD (PJK's scripts for building
>> stripped-down versions of FreeBSD for embedded servers of
>> various sorts: it's in ports/devel, from memory.)
>>
>> On the other hand, if you're game, and don't insist on lighttpd
>> (but apache runs, and there are probably other options)
>> you'll have a tough time finding something unix-like that can do
>> IP networking that is smaller than Minix-3.  Good fun to play
>> with.  Odd, though.  Networking interfaces, in particular, are
>> very different, since they're not based on Berkely sockets.
>>
>> Another option that you might want to consider, if you're set on
>> a "VM", there are a whole bunch of web servers in Java, which
>> run in that language's VM (see:
>> http://java-source.net/open-source/web-servers)
>>
>> There are many ways to skin the web server cat.  You it might
>> want to explain some more details that affect your particuar
>> problem space.
>>
>> Chees,
>>
>> Andrew
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