| Wanna
play something else ? Try Linux! Red Hat Linux asks one or two
questions and then installs in less than 20 minutes. It
runs extremely well on a 32Meg 133MHz 80486.
|
| Need
superpowers? Checkout the BeoWulf project. |
| Webserving?
Apache works on Linux and
Windows. |
| What
about server side scripting? PHP works with Apache. |
| Java server
pages? Servlets? Check Jakarta. |
| Databasedriven
website? mySQL works with Apache and PHP.
mySQL provides a rudimentary set of SQL features. PostgreSQL is much more capable. Interbase is both capable and
mature. |
| Thin client? Run
X under windows, et voila. There's X in RedHat. |
| Want free MS
compatible office package? Goto Sun, look for StarOffice. |
| Need to run Win32
apps? Take a look at Wine. |
| Want Windows like
GUI? Gnome has it. |
| Need windows
compatible disk serving and print serving? Do the Samba. |
| What about Java? Here's all about it! |
| Free application
server? Look for Enhydra. Well, not entirely free anymore. |
| Linux also has
ASP. Check Chilisoft. |
| J2EE is available as JBoss. |