Why? Any platform can be used for web development.

If you want to learn more about CentOS, visit the web site.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Liang Arsalan manactric@gmail.com wrote:

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On 09/02/2011 12:59 AM Liang Arsalan wrote:

i am a user of windows and use little bit ubuntu my friend told me to use centos for web development i have question that what is features of centos. thank you

There are many ways and tools you can use to create web sites:

- You could simply type in the html and css. In that situation I'd use emacs. It's "just an editor" but it's programmable and already has many features and packages to aid in creating web pages. You can also use it to write code in java, python, perl, C, C++, PHP, and many other languages used in web development.

- All the languages for web development and others are already included in CentOS and many other linux distributions.

- There are entire development packages for creating web sites. One I've been toying around with is drupal, but there are others.

- If you might use a database as part of your website, there are several included in the CentOS and most linux distros, most prominently MySQL.

- Of course Apache is included too. It's hard to do web development without a web server.

That should be enough to get you started. Learn half of all of those and you'll have more than enough knowledge to create web sites.

Best to all, ken

On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 09:59 +0500, Liang Arsalan wrote:

i am a user of windows and use little bit ubuntu my friend told me to use centos for web development i have question that what is features of centos.

Hallo Liang,

Centos is the free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Volunteers remove all the 'Red Hat' branding; then recompile the sources and make the distribution. The volunteers also maintain the distribution.

Centos copies Red Hat's policy of maintaining distributions for many years. This means users can be sure they will not have change distributions every 6 months or every 1 or 2 years. Centos distributions are maintained for about 7 years.

Centos is used by home users, business users and in Data Centres.

Centos is a very professional operating system. It contains most (sometimes all) of the Linux features professional users expect. Extra features and programmes can be added, already compiled for Centos, from special sites known as 'Repositories'.

Centos can be updated with bug fixes, improvements and new versions of programmes by using a simple command

yum update (which updates everything installed)

yum update xxxx (which updates XXXX)

Yum has several options. It is one of the most useful tools in Centos. The name means 'Yellow Dog Updated Modified'. Yellow Dog is/was the name of a Linux distribution.

You can install extra software, if a version is available in a repository, with

yum install xxxxx

Like other Linux distributions, Centos lets you have 'Windows'. The most common are Gnome and KDE but several other types of 'Windows' can be run.

To operate and test a web site, you will need Apache (or one of its competitors), PHP (a programming language which can be used in web pages and in Centos - it is similar to a BASH script), a database (I use MySQL). All of these are supplied in the basic version of Centos.

Centos has mail servers Sendmail, Exim etc. It has a DNS server called BIND ('Named'). Centos is a complete and advanced operating system containing everything a normal computer user will require.

Centos is available for i386 & i686 machines (32 bit processors) and X64 (64 bit processors). I believe Centos is available for other types of CPUs too.

I use Centos on servers, laptops, notebooks and home PCs. So do my friends who are not computer 'experts'. They prefer Centos instead of M$ Windoze.

Centos can be installed on a normal personal computer ('PC') in addition to M$ Windoze. This means when you start the PC, you will have a choice to use M$ Windoze or Centos. This is called 'dual booting'.

The biggest attraction for me to use Centos are:-

1. It is not M$ Windoze

2. It is free

3. It is very stable and reliable and boring. Centos is boring because it 'just works without problems' and works very well.

Best regards,

Paul, England Europe.