Drupal for Windows or for Mac OSX.. which is better?

maxx15 - August 14, 2008 - 07:19

Hi

For work I have to create a Website with Drupal.. I can either use a PC with Windows XP or a MacBook with OSX..
My Question would be with what would it be easier? or which of those two would work better with drupal?

Thank You

Regards

maxx15

Environment

Alexei Rayu - August 14, 2008 - 08:48

Building websites for Drupal takes a number of steps.
Windows and Mac support photoshop.
Windows has a larger choice of free advanced html/css/php editing tools, like notepad++.
But in windows, it's hard to set up a good LAMP server.
I have gone through a number of choices and have so far been most satisfied with Ubuntu Linux, running photoshop cs2 under wine, using Geany as an advanced editor, and LAMP I easily installed by a few clicks from a program manager (Synaptics). But if not for Linux, would probably go with Windows and use some easy-to-install server pack like Denwer.

- Alexei Rayu.

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Use whichever one you are most comfortable with

prbass - August 14, 2008 - 09:53

I would recommend you use whichever you are most comfortable with.

Drupal is designed to be web-server independent, but if you choose windows as your development platform, I would advise against using the built in IIS web-server.

I use run xampp as my development server, it comes in all flavours http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Good luck, and happy drupalling!

 
 

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