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Hi all

Well basically I a complete Linux newbie, I’m afraid MS Windows is where my knowledge lies (that’s where 4 years of college gets you).

I have a few plans to furthermore extend Bubbas functionality to suit my needs. And unluckily for my Bubba I’m certainly not afraid to give things a go.
This being the case I can foresee myself probably reinstalling the Bubba OS every other week after messing something up. And to be quite honest, that’ll not really ideal.

I suppose the ideal solution would be to have a second bubba, but I really don’t think I could afford that, so I’m after the next best thing. But what would that be?

Recommendations on what hardware would be suitable, preferably small/fanless, and what Debian distribution to get would be nice?

Regards Gary

lol

well, i think it depends on what you're going to develop. I think you're talking about software development.. In that case i don't think you're going to mess with the OS (it's not like windows that you can take down the OS with a broken application ).
Probably Bubba won't be very confortable for programming. I think it would be best to do your work on a PC with linux and then compile it on bubba..
If you're speaking of hardware development, i don't know the subject so i don't have advices

Developing was quite possibly the wrong choice of word, for the time being anyway. lol

For the time being to get me started, what I'm really be after would be a setup by where I can install and tryout programs/apps/utilities, even peripherals etc, etc, safely to see if they work and suit my needs first before attempting to install them on my Bubba.

If you just want to play around. A debian PC would do perfectly. A little bit tough regarding peripherals though. Since the HW differs.

/Tor

I configured an old laptop to run debian to prototype what I wanted to do before I bought my bubba.

As a result I have given up using MS Windows.

I still prototype changes on my laptop before installing on my bubba.