On 2/26/06, Chris Lott <chris.lott@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
