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So what’s the best way to set up your computer for web development?  Regardless, you are going to want to have two OSs installed.  Let’s start with the Apple computers.

On a MAC you can install another Intel based OS using Boot Camp or a virtualization product within the MAC OS.  I prefer the latter.

There are many virtualization products for the MAC; some are free and some are paid (I will be going through the different options on a later post).  The most popular used on the MAC is Parallels.  I like VirtualBox which is free (I will be going through the VirtualBox installation on a later post.)  Whatever virtualization product you use the second OS installed, should be Windows XP.  If you have the juice (4GB of RAM) you can install Windows Vista.  Also if you have the capacity you can install Ubuntu too.  That’s the recommended OS setup on the MAC.

On a PC if you have a 80GB or less hard drive, I recommend you install Ubuntu (or another Linux distro) as the main OS and virtualize Windows XP or Vista.  I recommend the latest version of Ubuntu which is 8.04 LTS.  You can find instructions on how to install Ubuntu at Ubuntu and also another great site HowtoForge. Read the rest of this entry »