Linux Mint

[808geek]

Any developers use Linux?
If you do, are you using Ubuntu or Mint?
I am resurrection one of my older computers and that was dual boot windows and linux.
I plan to use Linux for my php programming projects, but wondered what Linux version you recommend.

[svidgen]

I typically use CentOS on the server-side.

[NogDog]

I have not tried Mint yet, but some stuff I've read recently about it has me interested in trying it out one of these days. I have Ubuntu on a dual-boot laptop (with Win7), but don't really use it much.

[Sup3rkirby]

I myself use Ubuntu when I work with linux. I have actually really liked Unity and some of the more recent changes and I think having always used Ubuntu for so long made my Mint experience not as enjoyable. Mint has been gaining popularity recently and getting great reviews but perhaps I'm just too used to Ubuntu now to use Mint.

[svidgen]

Should have mentioned: If you have a relatively modern PC (last few years), I'd actually avoid dual-booting and just run VirtualBox (http://www.svidgen.com/search?cref=http://www.svidgen.com/cse.xml%3Fversion%3D141&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=virtualbox&sa=Search).

Use windows 7 as your host OS, install a few linux flavors as guests, a few legacy windows or even VM's for fun, etc.. Then just treat each one like an individual box that you're remote'd into. So long as your CPU and RAM can support 1 or 2 VM's, the biggest performance hit you'll notice is if/when multiple VM's are fighting for the disk.

Great solution if you want to keep a single OS as your primary boot OS, but need or want to use another OS for developmental or testing purposes (or running apps that your preferred OS doesn't support).