Lately I have been rethinking / rejiggering / reinventing our SCM and Release Engineering functions at work. One of the things that has shaken out of it is the use of “virtual appliances” in our infrastructure. And of course that means that I have been proofing the concept here at home with VirtualBox OSE (at work we use a different vendor), GNU/Linux OSes, and various GPL software. So, I’ll cheat a little bit for this post and simply provide a few download links and the README file for my favorite LAMP stack DEVELOPMENT image / appliance. (I would suggest that it’s not quite an appliance because I haven’t included the web UI to reconfigure the network or manage the Apache2 install.) In a nutshell, this is a headless [...]