Which operating system is best for PHP development or development in general?

Question

Which operating system is best suited for PHP development or development in general?

1) Linux Mint? 2) Ubuntu? 3) Windows 7? 4) OS?

Answer 1

There are four possibilities for a better operating system:

• The one you are most familiar with. Knowledge breeds productivity;
• Everything that is in your team. You can create problems by being different;
• Your tools are available. Sometimes you have no choice; and
• In your work environment. I saw the problems caused earlier because the dev environment was on Windwos and the working environment was Linux. It was with Java. Just as they may be, there may be subtle differences that can bite you badly. PHP is another good example of how it differs from Windows vs Linux.

The only thing I will add to this is that of any OS-specific functions that I can think of, the one that really matters is the file system. I once posted a 20 minute subversion test on WinXP / NTFS using putty (svn + ssh) for up to 40 seconds on Ubuntu / ext3. Build time also decreased from 15 minutes to ~ 3 minutes. In both cases, it was almost the entire file system.

Answer 2

Whatever you know and how best.

This is a truly personal decision about how you like to work and the tools you want to work with.

It may also depend on the team you are working with. If you have a specific IDE that the team uses, it can help you use the same IDE that they use.

One of the great things about PHP is that you can develop almost all tools with a lot of tools.

Answer 3

If you are talking about PHP development, there is pretty reliable support on all operating systems. Linux really starts to shine if you dine with the source code and / or create PHP extensions (this is possible on Windows, but VERY unpleasant).

Answer 4

Perhaps the same one you want to deploy your software to, although this applies less (but is still important, especially when testing) for technologies like PHP, which works pretty well on multiple platforms.

Answer 5

There is no better operating system for developing PHP. Choose the one that is convenient for you, in which the development environment that you want to use is working. Also make sure that you are familiar with using the operating system.

Answer 6

There is no clear answer. If you are familiar with Windows, there is no problem using it. You can use Wamp ( http://www.wampserver.com/en/ ) or Xammp ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/ ) (they install the whole PHP, Apache and MySQL package for you). If you are brand new, I suggest Wamp as it is easier. If you don't like the PHPMyadmin application, you can also use SQLYog ( http://www.webyog.com/en/ ) to manage the database.

However, if you are configured to be a hacker, try linux. This is good, but a little more difficult to configure than windows, but give you maximum strength and freedom. Also, since it is usually called the LAMP stack, you will get enough documentation to help you.

I did not use a MAC, but there may be some good resources. Just google.

Answer 7

Ubuntu is the best operating system for developing PHP.

Answer 8

I used Notepad ++ on WinXP to complete my PHP development. Pretty simple and has built-in ftp.