Do people actually do Web Design and Development on Linux? And how would you do these other things?

[beer]

This is in OT because it is more of a survey than anything else.

I am seriously wondering if it is possible to do both design and coding in a Linux environment. I know as a server they are plenty functional, I'm just wondering if using Linux as a productivity platform is feasible.

I know that PHPEd can be purchased for the Linux platform, at a licensing fee of about $300.
Image wise, you could always use The GIMP.

How would you handle Flash? How would you handle other forms of media-rich content. How would you handle not actually having the latest Flash plugin?

I know OpenOffice provides good basic producivity support. But it lacks a PIIM. How would you manage contacts, calendars and tasks?

What about thinks like .asf, and .wmv files? How would you play those?

So many things seem like they can't be done...

 

[rahvin]

No GOOD site uses flash. Think about that.

PHP and perl are native on linux because you can run the servers yourself without having to pay big server license. As far as editors go, there are many to pick from. If you want gee whiz I'm and idiot and need graphical development you can always run a lot of the applications through wine.

 

[pac1085]

Not many 'real' sites use flash, but if you REALLY need it you can try using wine, or just dual booting. You can get the flash 6 plugin for linux via crossover. It would be nice if macromedia would release a linux version of flash and the plugin. For php editing, I like to use Kate. Vim and Emacs are nice too. Zend has a php editor avaliable for linux also if I'm not mistaken. You can play asf and wmv files through xine or mplayer. You can use KOrganizer for calendars and tasks, I dont know if it has contacts with it though. There are alot of other programs out there for contacts though, just do a search.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: rahvin
No GOOD site uses flash. Think about that.

WTF are you talking about!? :Q



nik (good luck with the Linux stuff)

 

[Chaotic42]

Read the book "Son of Webpages that Suck"

This Flanders guy is on the ball. No good site uses Flash, except for like cartoon sites and such.

 

[beer]

You can get the flash 6 plugin for linux via crossover

crossover? explain. I don't have it and really need to get it.

 

[pac1085]

Originally posted by: Elemental007

You can get the flash 6 plugin for linux via crossover

crossover? explain. I don't have it and really need to get it.

Its called crossover plugin...sold by a company named Codeweavers. It uses wine and allows you to use windows plugins in your browser. It costs 24.95 but they have a demo version(its kind of annoying with the popups) You can install flash, quicktime, windows media player, etc with it. Well worth it IMO. They got crossover office too so if you dont like openoffice/staroffice/koffice/gobe/etc you can use MS office. I heard there working on crossover photoshop too.

 

[beer]

That's AWESOME!

If I could use Photoshop 7 and all my plugins, it'd be great well worth $25...well worth it.

I just wish Macromedia would offer Dreamweaver support. I don't like handcoding sites. Yes, I am a pussy. Screw you hand coders, I'd rather save the time and spend it drinking beer with a hot girl

 

[pac1085]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
That's AWESOME!

If I could use Photoshop 7 and all my plugins, it'd be great well worth $25...well worth it.

I just wish Macromedia would offer Dreamweaver support. I don't like handcoding sites. Yes, I am a pussy. Screw you hand coders, I'd rather save the time and spend it drinking beer with a hot girl

Well if you dont like hand coding your sites you could use Quanta or BlueFish. They arent WYSIWUG editors, but there similiar with buttons for commonly used code, wizards, etc. Worth a look into.

 

[The Stigenator]

my brother does coding of his site on linux/freebsd boxes. Mostly linux box.

Anyway he uses GIMP and Emacs. We have a laptop with RH7.3 installed and that is an on the go dev box.

 

[InfectedMushroom]

Elemental what exactly are you asking here?
Linux is excelent for coding/development/runing web server.
Are you asking if it is a good graphic design platform? That it isn't. If you are going to be designing flash sites, or doing a lot of graphic work, you're probably better off under windows, even though you might still want to use Linux as a server system.

 

[notfred]

The biggest broblem w/ developing on linux is NOT the lack of development tools. There are plenty. The broblem is the lack of browsers. When 90% of the world is using IE 5+ on windows, you'd have to be an idiot NOT to have IE installed on your development machine (unless you have two machines, but I'm assuming you dont).

Also, nifty things like flash and dreamweaver only run on windows and MacOS.

I'm a professional web developer, and I do my development on windows, althoguh my machine at work dual boots win2k and redhat 7.3, in case I need it for something.