On 4 Apr 2001 19:12:52 -0700, Frank K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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