Thanks ill be sure to look into it. Im having issue with Debian like monitor wise ... i cant select resolutions and some other settings. I will try to install Ubuntu.
Debian doesn't care what you use--cli or GUI. If you install Gnome (which IIRC is the default) then you'll get the GUI desktop. But it's easy enough to remove the GUI if you don't want it, or if you just want it not to start automatically when you boot, you can run:
% update-rc.d -f gdm remove
To help with your other graphics problem we'd need to know your hardware specs and the version of Debian you're using.
If you don't want the GUI and if the box you're installing onto has net access (preferably via Ethernet and not Wifi, although Wifi might work for you too) then go with Debian -- Network install from a minimal CD which is a minimal network install. All it has is the bare necessities to get up and running, after which it lets you selectively download and install what you need. Once the base system is up and running you can install your LAMP stack. Google "basic Debian LAMP install" for scads of information. Most tuturials have some variant of the following though:
Yup. You can also press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to another terminal from the one the GUI is running on. Usually there are 7 or 8 terminals at boot; the GUI runs in one of them. Press Alt-F7 to get back to the GUI's term if you do this.
If you've installed the Gnome desktop, then there should be a gnome-terminal icon in the top panel. Otherwise look in the Application menu for Terminal. It's in the Accessories subfolder in Ubuntu; could be a different spot in Debian.
thanks a ton. I tested out on a virtualbox and since i can use both GUI and terminal i will dual boot another PC i have for now. In the future i will setup a standalone box for this and just hopefully move all my data over or remove the windows boot and use that as the main one...