On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 13:22, Warren Post wrote: > El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 11:48, Mr. VLE79E escribió: > > I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win > > box for developing web sites... > > I'm not answering your question, but if you don't mind my jumping in may > I suggest you rethink your idea to use a Windows box for website > development. I do websites and use Windows only at gunpoint. The apps > available in Linux are so far beyond what Windows has to offer that > there is no comparison. > > Code editors? Bluefish and Quanta beat their Windows brethren. > Preprocessors? What few there are for Windows are mostly ports or > ripoffs from *nix. WYSIWYG? I recommend hand coding, but IBM's Websphere > stands up well to Dreamweaver. M$ Runt Page is too unworthy for > comparison. Image editors? Gimp compares very well to Photoshop. > > Granted, if you have a favorite tool that you just can't live without, > you might be stuck with Windows if it won't run in Wine. I still need a > Windows box around to test my sites in M$IE. And if you do ASP, you may > well want your web server to be IIS on Windows. But in general, I think > you'll find Linux far superior to Windows for website development. YMMV, > as always.
For my situation, I just run WinXP Pro in a VMWare window - do everything without ever leaving linux...and yeah, hand coding is better - at least you're IN CONTROL of what code yer throwing on the web... I've also tweaked out my WINE so that I can run some apps under linux - like Fractal Painter 5.0 - currently working on CorelDraw10...just a few more dll's to trace out... In our "home" network, the linux box is the mail server, internet router/firewall, dns server internally, dhcp server, web server, ftp server, samba server (PDC), newsgroup server (only a few) - the other boxes that ARE Windows are generally for either the wife to check eBay, do mail and play solitaire, or for testing...but all in all, the one linux box is doing the job of two Windows machines - and more... Where else can you run Win98SE, WinXP Pro and OS/2 all at the same time without ever leaving your "home" environment or having more than one computer? -- Sat Dec 14 18:25:00 EST 2002 6:25pm up 3 days, 10:47, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.12 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.
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