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I figured I'd need at least 8GB RAM for the laptop and ~4GB for VM so this sounds like it would be inline with your suggestions. I hadn't heard of the Quickstart Ubuntu, so thanks for the tip :)
You're right... I just retagged it. (Though, to be honest, I've seen a fair number of "marketing" type posts going to Drupal Planet that probably aren't appropriate as well.) I do hope that the comments will be useful for the general Drupal audience :)
Windows with virtual box and QuickStart Ubuntu image works nicely. Needs some RAM, though. 4gb for the VM minimum if you want to use net beans...
At the time when I got my MacBook Pro 17" (Early 2011 model) I would've answered Mac. If you can find an early or late 2011 model, I'd say a used MacBook Pro in good condition might just do the trick.
Mac OS X the OS is fine, but hardware-wise the new ones have few or no user-replaceable parts...at least not the Retina ones. And they retired the 17" model (the one with 1920x1200 resolution...I'm a stickler for that, though maybe you aren't).
Now using Mac, I realize that Windows isn't terribly bad, especially when using VirtualBox VMs. And on that note, unless you need a GUI, you should get into using Vagrant and running your VMs headless. Either SSH into them and use Vim or use your normal tools and Vagrant's built-in shared folders.
One big advantage though of Mac OS X and Vagrant/VirtualBox is that you can share folders over NFS from Mac OS X (host) to Linux (guest). This isn't possible in Windows, and this will bite you on Drupal sites with a lot of files when VBox's shared folders get really slow.
Mac OS X is not the be-all end-all of OSes it may sometimes seem. Its memory management sucks. But as a tool for the Drupal developer, it's more versatile than Windows, at least at the current time.
I have had great success using virtualbox to stand up ubuntu VMs for local dev.
While I sometimes actually use ubuntu desktop VM and work in there, I tend to just run ubuntu server VMs and putty via windows into it for a terminal, and use my fav windows IDEs (Sublime Text, Eclipse, Notepad++, take your pick)
Good luck!
Dude, you're asking the Drupal community... lol :)
Seriously though, I found myself in a similar situation around a year ago and decided to go Mac (and in the process acquire my first Apple product apart from my old ipod).
I gotta say it's been a great run and I haven't looked back ever since! The Linux VM option is there in case you want it, but I really enjoy developing using a hybrid standard OSX/Homebrew-based setup.
MS Office and Adobe products run natively which is a big plus and regardless of what anyone says I kinda like iPhoto :)
Do it, everything *just works* (TM)! :)
Good luck and be sure to post back once you've made a decision!
- Alex
Just one thing. This post is not appropriate for Drupal Planet.
Why are you using MS Office? Have you tried Open Office and Google Docs?
Lenovo if you want to spend money or a laptop from a Linux laptop vendor. While Apple's hardware is nice, they are over priced and Apple has no qualms about not supporting them with updates in the future. My kids $300 Acer laptop under Ubuntu runs rings around my wifes mac book.
In regrads to vms. Why bother adding another layer of configuration. Just make good use of the /etc/hosts file and all the ips in the 127.x.x.x range that you have locally.
Photo management software, shotwell works great and you don't have that insane impossible to navigate directory structure like you get the the macs, it is just /home//Pictures/year/month/day
Photoshop and illustrator? Why bother, unless you are a professiona and are doing cymkl the Gimp works just as well, as does ink scape and xara xtreme.
Wireframe, pencil for the most part here. Also use Dia and Libre Office for connectors.
Unless you really need to work with big business, Libre Office is great.
Checkout andLinux... issue is only works on 32bit boxes.
http://www.andlinux.org/
https://www.drupal.org/node/505974
Hi Kristen,
I have very positive experiences with using Windows 7 as the host system for Photoshop stuff & some gaming while running Virtualbox with Linux for all work stuff and Drupal development. It works just perfectly this way if your notebook has sufficient RAM (8GB) and a good CPU (Core i7 or similar).
To have a really fluent experience, I would definitely recommend an SSD drive. This really boosts the host and client performance enormously.
Or you could consider to put your Virtualbox machines on an external USB3.0 SSD, if you like using your machines on different host machines from time to time.
I guess a Mac + Linux VMs would also do it, but it's just more expensive than Asus, Samsung, Dell & Co with a similar strong hardware setup. But if you need Mac-only software often, maybe it is the better choice than running a second VBox with MacOS...
Greetings,
Simon
Because OS X is basically UNIX, I found the transition to Mac to be pretty easy. VirtualBox is nice and sturdy on OS X (So are VMWare and Parallels).
For Drupal development, I've found using VirtualBox + Vagrant + DrupalVagrant to be a nice way to get a full Drupal VM running and integrated with the host OS.
Sounds cool... will try it.
Sorry... I wrote it up too quickly and had javascript on my brain. All fixed, thanks :)
When I used it awhile back (a year ago?), it was buggy. I will try again!
How about using Admin Menu toolbar style module that comes with admin menu ???
At nr. 3. you probably want to use mymodule.css and drupal_add_css()
use Chrome/Firefox Stylish extension.
Educational Article! At last somebody that really knows what they are talking about and can also produce readable content for us that read it. Definitely looking forward to your next offering.
Sounds good... translate away!
It appears you took down the pager functionality. If you enable it again, check the logs for errors when going to the other pages.
Thanks for the feedback... I'll be migrating to Linode soon so I'm hoping things will be more zippy over there.
http://viki.benpour.com/?q=products&page=1above is my website url
i am unable to go on next page of my website please help me as soon as possible
I get this issue when mod_rewrite isn't installed/enabled on Apache. Try going to:
http://localhost/[sitename]?q=user
If that works, then clean URLs / mod_rewrite isn't set up. You can also check your apache logs at something like:
> tail /var/log/apache2/error.log
to see what error you get when you go to other URLs.
Good luck!
Kristen
Hi. Thanks for all the great advice! However, following the instructions above, I installed a Drupal instance via drush. Then, when I go to localhost/[mysitename], I get the standard Drupal post-install home page, which is good. But...when I try to go anywhere else on the site, localhost/[mysitename]/user for example, I get a "The requested url....was not found on this server" error. When this happens on my shared hosting account, I know to go to .htaccess and uncomment RewriteBase. However, this isn't fixing the problem on my local instance. Any advice? Thx in advance!