Having done all my professional development under windows, Ive recently been tempted to switch to linux at least some of the time (dual boot until I can get two seperate boxes). Has anyone done this and like it better? Obviously linux will rule out any .net frameworks, but I can still do it in a LAMP environment. Plus it would help to refresh me on some linux commands for when I eventually run my own server.
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ohhhhh how i prefer LAMP over windows!!!!
All of my employers (except for one very brief 12.5 day contract) have been microsoft whores. they buy into the marketing and price of "support" of microsoft because "there is no support for linux" which i find halarious. they use MS CMS and SharePoint here and if a client requests something that does not fit into the context of either two products, "it can't be done" which pisses me off to say the least. i hate both products because they are big and bulky for the needs of the organisation here. i do see purposes for these products, but it's overkill for our own needs.
the projects i work on at home don't require a lot of processing. it's mostly data reads/writes from mysql and not much processing of that data goes on, it's mostly me just displaying with minimal data manipulation. suits my needs perfectly and i prefer PHP over ASP (haven't gotten much into ASP.NET, again, too much bloat for my needs).
All of my employers (except for one very brief 12.5 day contract) have been microsoft whores. they buy into the marketing and price of "support" of microsoft because "there is no support for linux" which i find halarious. they use MS CMS and SharePoint here and if a client requests something that does not fit into the context of either two products, "it can't be done" which pisses me off to say the least. i hate both products because they are big and bulky for the needs of the organisation here. i do see purposes for these products, but it's overkill for our own needs.
the projects i work on at home don't require a lot of processing. it's mostly data reads/writes from mysql and not much processing of that data goes on, it's mostly me just displaying with minimal data manipulation. suits my needs perfectly and i prefer PHP over ASP (haven't gotten much into ASP.NET, again, too much bloat for my needs).
I used to use a dual boot setup (xp/fedora), but recently re-setup my apache/php/mysql properly on XP and love it. A few shortcuts to httpd.conf/HOSTS etc, and creating sites locally is a breeze now. Took me a while to get curl, mod_rewrite, imap etc working but it's all fine now.
(I've never used asp.net, as all my live servers are linux)
Here's a handy day and a half time saving tip: Don't remove your linux installation through partition magic without redoing the boot partition. I was stuck for ages with just a grub prompt (and no knowledge of how to remove it, or boot into windows)!!
(I've never used asp.net, as all my live servers are linux)
Here's a handy day and a half time saving tip: Don't remove your linux installation through partition magic without redoing the boot partition. I was stuck for ages with just a grub prompt (and no knowledge of how to remove it, or boot into windows)!!
There's MONO for .NET under *nix. http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
btw, GuyFromOz, "fdisk /mbr" will clear up that grub prompt issue.
btw, GuyFromOz, "fdisk /mbr" will clear up that grub prompt issue.
I prefer to develop on Linux since that's what all my servers are (flavors of Unix anyway). I could never get comfortable with Linux as my desktop environment though. I tried many times an always ended up back in Windows for stuff like graphics.
A few years ago I dropped Windows for OSX and never looked back. Unix under the hood that can run all the server apps (apache, mysql, perl, etc.).
It's everything Linux is for web development plus the best desktop, IMO.
A few years ago I dropped Windows for OSX and never looked back. Unix under the hood that can run all the server apps (apache, mysql, perl, etc.).
It's everything Linux is for web development plus the best desktop, IMO.
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