About a month ago, I decided to ditch Windows Vista, and move back to Ubuntu. It was kind of a reluctant decision since:
- I sometimes develop on Visual Studio which requires Windows
- DELL’s software management is awesome, and one just has to enter your service tag to get a list of driver’s you need, etc.
However, Vista’s sluggish performance and slow boot-up times, became too irritating too bear.
I also have to admit that with my previous UWC laptop, I kind-of had it tuned up as a developer machine, nice-and-fast, great apps, removal of non-essential features. It’s a journey and adventure to rediscover that. Follow my next blog posts as I attempt to retrace those steps, the things they don’t tell you, and stuff I’ve just plain forgotten! Also some of my notes on getting VirtualBox working.
I’ve already posted on how to get innodb on xampp for windows. Here’s the instructions for linux assuming Ubuntu.
Open a command line and enter:
sudo gedit /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf
Find the line that says:
skip-innodb
Add a hash (#) in front of that so that the line looks like:
#skip-innodb
Restart MySQL and you should have InnoDB enabled!
As usual, I could have got this right first time if my brain registered better. Assuming you have the latester version. First of all, you NEED the Xampp Development Package. Go to the download page at: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374
You’ll find:
- Xampp Download Version 1.x.x
- Xampp Upgrade Version
- Xampp Development Version
You’d never guess how long it took me to find this. The next step to remember is:
- Xampp Development Version is an ADDITIONAL package, not a replacement package. You still need to download the full version if you are doing this for the first time, and do not remove your existing version if you have one. Would be wise to back up though – just in case.
Once you have uncompressed the archive, you’ll have access to phpize that you need. From there, you can proceed to install from source – see http://xdebug.org/install.php. For some reason, the PECL installation didn’t work for me.
If you’re looking to move over to Linux from Windows, or just looking for a linux distribution that plays many formats as possible, try Ubuntu Ultimate Edition available from http://ubuntusoftware.info/
Ubuntu Ultimate Edition is a remake of Ubuntu (currently Edgy) with tons of USEFUL additional drivers and programs. The one thing I like is that the media formats just works. VLC is bundled so that caters for all the Microsoft formats, and Quicktime etc.
Downloading a Linux distribution in South Africa is a time-consuming and expensive process. Ubuntu has a ShipIt programme that will send you a copy of Ubuntu for free. But if you are prepared to spend a couple of bucks, I suggest you head over to FOSS CDs.
Not only do they have a wide up-to-date range, they are much cheaper, use quality media (light scribe), and deliver on time.
I'm a Web Developer living in Cape Town, South Africa. Interests include: PHP, JQuery, ExtJS, Adobe AIR, Linux, Ubuntu, WordPress, Human Rights, Usability, Multimedia