Today I’m going to pick up a couple of old Dell PC’s from my dads workplace. What would I want with a couple of old PCs you may ask.

I’m planning to set up my first Linux box here at home for the purposes of web development. I’ve never done this before, have no idea where to start and no idea how long it will take.

Perhaps you’ve done this before? If you have, you might be able to give me some pointers.

My requirements are simple. I want to serve web pages across my local home network, use PHP and MySQL, be able to access the ‘httpd’ folder as a mapped drive on Windows, and perhaps install some other services such as subversion.