The H8ers Club

I made the switch to the Ubuntu Linux operating system about a month ago. Why, you ask? Well, to be honest, I formatted my hard drive and my Windows XP Home Edition cd wouldn’t install properly, Blue Screen of Death Login Error after install rebooted. At first I was like WTF and being the frugal person that I am, I decided to boot an old Ubuntu live cd that I had lying around, Ubuntu Dapper Drake to be precise or Ubuntu 6.06 LTS if you want to be a stickler and have since Upgraded to Hardy.

I was cautious at first and rebooted several times before I learned to read manuals and ask questions. I actually started liking Linux more than Windows. Why? I control my computer now, I don’t have the blue screens of death anymore, if I needed something I ask in the forum or Google it and usually find a suitable article that can help me or a topic in the Ubuntu forum, which is a hell of a lot better than the one for Windoze.

The task I needed to solve now was, which programs do I want for web development in Linux? So I compiled a small list of programs for all those out their who, like myself, have just been assimilated. So here it goes:

1. LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP or Perl): Ubuntu has a task to set this up and so do some other distro’s. Which I find is an easy way to set up your web server with Ubuntu or any Linux ditsro. Well easy for me, if you do run into a bug just do a search in your favorite distro’s forum and you should find a plethora of help topics.
2. PhpMyAdmin: Great for playing with your database, most repositories have this as a package.
3. Quanta+: Great for making projects in your local hosted web server. you can set it up the to get live previews and it’s also good for separating testing scripts and production scripts. Just an all around good editor.
4. Now here is the tricky part image editing software:
   • Gimp: is good, a little learning curve, but once you know it, you know it. Plus it has the most effects options
   • Krita: Another good image editing platform.
   • Inkscape: I like this one a lot, very nice user layout.
5. All of these can be found in the different Linux distro repositories, so you don’t have to manually compile code.

That’s about it, with a couple of php5 modules and apache modules you are up and ready to go. But please do me a favor and always think security, always read the best methods for security protocols with any program you install.