We have had success using the Fedora as the development Environment. In particular we have used the following Procedure to setup hhe PHP and Web 2.0 Development Environment.

1.0 Seting Up the VNC Serve
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2005/11/10/configure-vnc-server-in-fedora/
2.0 Sering Up Firewall
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=63798
3.0 Seting up the Mysqladmin
4.0 Seting Up the delphi Development system.