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Monday, February 11, 2008

Linux based Development Machine

I  loaded  my Linux machine with the softwares needed for web development with PHP.
Following is the list of softwares that are replacement for their windows versions/based
softwares with similar capabilities.

After using them for a while I have given them points out of 10 for usability/features and
learning ease for a user new to Linux

Sr No.

Function

Windows

Linux(Fedora core 5)

features

Learning ease

comments

1 documentation MS office Open office 9 10
2 PHP Editor Zend Zend 10 10 paid
3 HTML editor Dreamweaver NVU 7 6
4 FTP Filezilla Filezilla 10 10
5 PDF Acrobat Evince 10 10
6 Network messanger pandion jabber 10 10
7 Email Client Outlook thunderbird 10 9
8 Browser IE Firefox 10 10
9 PHP/HTML editor Dreamviewer BlueFish 5 6


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