Best suited linux distribution for webmaster

[Mohamed]

Which Linux dirstribution is best suited to webmaster(web-developer), who is newbie to Linux.

[jtara]

There isn't any one answer.

First of all, for what purpose?

- For your web server?

- For a test machine for developing your web site?

- For a development machine for developing your web site?

- For general-purpose home use? (Web browsing, multimedia, etc.)

- Some combination fo the above?

[jezra]

There certainly are quite a few flavors of linux that will suite your needs to various degrees. With that in mind, I think the important thing here is that you are new to linux and you will need a distro that is easy to install and will allow you to easily add and remove software from the system in a graphical environment.

I'm biased towards Ubuntu, since it is the distribution that I am most familiar with and I really like the synaptic package manager for software installation.

[ronniet]

yep, i'd agree with Jezra - I prefer Kubuntu though, which is just Ubuntu with a KDE front end rather than Gnome - the package manager is excellent and allows easy install/uninstall of programs and for web stuff Nvu is excellent, very like Dreamweaver.

You can download and try Kubuntu/Ubuntu using LiveCD's where you just boot from the CD and it will let you try out all the features of the OS without touching anything on your hard drives.

[Mohamed]

For your web server?
For a development machine for developing your web site?

yes for those two reasons, I am planing to host my website at my own computer at home so I decided to use linux. but I am not sure which version will suit me..