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I'm planning on having a dual boot with Windows 98, for games and usual work, on one partition and Windows XP, for ASP/IIS, on another. Should I create another partition and bang on Linux, for PHP/MySQL?
If yes, what version do you recommend? I've never worked with Linux before, and I'd like it to be free (downloadable):)
Thanks
Any reason why you couldn't use PHP/MySQL in XP? You can install it easily, into IIS or Apache.
If you want to dabble into Linux, give it a shot, but personally seems like a lot more work to me to keep booting between OSes.
Justins got a point, if you have never used linux before and would like to dual boot learn it before you start hosting a website on it.
...but what an experience it will be :D
Its a great experience dual booting. And setting up a server will make it even better. It might take a whil if you are totally new to linux though.
Remember that to run a server on one partition, you have to reboot...
Linux or BSD will run great on older hardware - you can set up SSH and maybe FTP on them and work with them from your Windows box. I'd put it on an old Pentium, stick it in a corner, and not bother with dual-booting.
I was able to squeeze the last juice out of my box with Linux... I'm able to run RtCW, UT (native) and Warcraft 3, HOMM3 (emulated) faster in Linux. Which means a lot to me, as my computer's bad for gaming.
Mail() and several others things don't work with IIS, and I want to give Apache a shot.Quote:
Originally posted by Jungle-Man
Any reason why you couldn't use PHP/MySQL in XP? You can install it easily, into IIS or Apache.
If you want to dabble into Linux, give it a shot, but personally seems like a lot more work to me to keep booting between OSes.
Booting between OSes won't be such a problem, as I will only use Linux now and then.
Any specific version you recommend?
for servers, red hat
for personal desktop, mandrake
for advanced, slackware
:)
Thanks:)
I suggest mandrake cause i hear red hat has poor KDE support. Mandrake also has a good disk partitioning utility. People have told me they buy a copy of mandrake just to get the partitioning program. You can get most linux distributions here http://linuxiso.org . If you want makdrake, you might want to wait for version 9. It's in beta right now and is supposed to be finished in september.
If a server is what your after, you'll definitaly want a unix like system. Windows and IIS are toys for people who don't know unix.
SuSE works well over here ;)
I see no problem...Quote:
Originally posted by Ahriman
I suggest mandrake cause i hear red hat has poor KDE support.