Switching From Windows To Linux - Comments Page 2

I've been playing with Ubuntu Linux for a little while now and am just getting into switching from IIS web server in Windows to Apache in Linux.

For my own personal computing purposes, because I have so much software for Windows I'll continue to use that, but I know in my mind that there's got to be a better solution for a web server than IIS. The only problem is I'm so used to managing my web pages with FrontPage that when I switch over to Linux all of that will disappear.

I like creating web forms and using PHP and MySQL - all of this can be done on Linux as well but I don't know what kind of tool to use for creating these applications. Any recommendations?

Hello there!
I've been using Linux for the last few years parallel with Windows. A few months ago I bought a new laptop, with which I was forced to buy Vista. I have never used Vista previous to this, and had a great deal of difficulty with it, so I eventually uninstalled the whole lot, reformatted my hard drive, and installed Mandriva Linux, which is my preferred distro. I have now been running Linux exclusively for the last 3 months, and am perfectly happy with it. It is more stable, and more reliable.

I am a little surprised that you have not mentioned Mandriva Linux in your article, Bob. I have tried various different distros over the past few ears, but have not found anything to compare with the ease of installation and intuitive design of Mandriva. Here I am thinking very much in the way of wireless network (including the availability of ndiswrapper, so you can use Windows drivers if necessary), which is a great deal easier to set up in Mandriva than Ubuntu, and the administrator tools in Mandriva are collected in one place, and presented in a way that makes the operating system easy to configure.

It was impossible for me to buy a computer without having to pay for an operative system that I didn't want (as far as I know, I can't even sell it on to someone else without the computer). Isn't it about time laws were passed to prevent computer producers from forcing customers to buy operating systems that they don't want - or any other software for that matter?

changen windows 98 t0 linux is because can not get virous putcion or get hardware or software or support for windows will not spend hundres of$ for a computer today be gone tomorow will not buy another computer tomorow 3years from now