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Posted by Steve on 02/15/06 06:07
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:41:55 -0800, joelbyrd wrote:
> I was looking at jobs on craigslist and saw several postings saying
> something like "2+ years experience developing for a LAMP
> (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) platform...". Now, I've been working with PHP
> and MySQL a few months now, but here's my question: where does the
> Linux part and Apache part come in? What should I know? In other
> words, I don't think I've ever had to deal with anything specific to
> Linux or Apache, so in what circumstances would knowledge of these need
> to come in? (I hope that's somewhat clear)
Try it and see. Is your experience related to serving websites, or just
general php on a box experience. There's nothing particularly difficult
about either linux or apache, despite what the M$ FUD says. But you *do*
have to understand what you're doing - blindly clicking boxes until it
sort of does what you want will not work.
As suggested by others, VMWare is a good place to start - you won't damage
your machine in any way ( well, as long as you've got plenty of memory (: ).
My $0.02,
Steve
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