Ubuntu on Mac for Web Development

Geek alert: this post gets into Linux and other such topics. More geeky than I usually get. I have finally got my setup complete. I got tired of trying to find Mac binaries of all the libraries I wanted installed for web development, and I’ve been doing much more PHP this month than Flex. So I reworked things. Here’s my setup: Ubuntu Server 8.0.4 running on VMWare Fusion lighttpd web server, learned it in a few hours and loved it (thanks Jake) sshfs to mount my ~/Sites folder to the /var/www/ folder on the Ubuntu VM Installing Ubuntu Server on VMWare wasn’t a problem. I tried...read more