Re: PHP with Win2k or Linux

On 4 Apr 2001 19:12:52 -0700, Frank K <fdk126@adelphia.net> wrote: >Does anyone know is there are advantages to running linux while = >developing php? I just would like to know if there is anything special = >to installing and developing on linux before I move from Win2k?? Three advantages: - it's free - it will more closely follow your production server's environment, which can be handy for more involved things and, of course, any custom extensions you have developed. This is also nice to prevent little problems like different-case links to files which work fine on case-insensitive filesystems. - it's a native environment - the Win32 port isn't as mature, so you may run into problems (e.g. 4.0.5RC1 on my Win32 Apache setup dies nastily if you use MySQL). Also, since IIS is extremely feature-poor compared with Apache, you may need to run Apache. If you have to install all of this Unix software, you might just want to do it under Unix in the first place. Two disadvantages: - Fewer clients - if you need to support, say, IE, you need a Windows box to test with. This becomes worse when you're dealing with things like Flash. - You need to know a lot more Unix. I personally find Unix much easier to use than NT but someone without my Unix background would disagree. My preferred environment is a Unix (Linux, OpenBSD) server running Samba and a WinNT/2K client. This allows you to use Unix as a server and still test with all of the Win32 software a modern developer needs to worry about.