Re: Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev
| From: | chris smith | Date: | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:52:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Linux distributions and tools for Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL dev | ||
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On 2/26/06, Chris Lott <chris.lott@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm making the switch from Windows to Linux for mydesktop and
> development environment and would greatly appreciate suggestions for
> development tools on this platform. Ubuntu seems to be getting all the
> press, but suggestions about Linux distributions are welcome as well!
That's a bit of a can of worms :) Everyone has different preferences.
Ubuntu or debian are good choices (ubuntu is kept more up to date, the
debian-stable branch only gets updated with security releases between
major versions).
Fedora is easy to use and set up.
They are both package based systems so unless you have a very specific
need from a package (eg with php you need the 'pcntl' functions) you
don't need to compile anything from source.
If you want to use a 'source package' system, I've been told Gentoo is
good (works much the same as freebsd) but I don't have any experience
with it.