Posted by d on 02/15/06 12:03

"Steve" <ThisOne@Aint.Valid> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.02.15.04.07.14.88214@Aint.Valid...
> 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.

There is when you have to start compiling things :-P

> 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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