i figure with 4 dual boots now...and a dedicated linux machine (old music editing machine i setup with midi and all), i should start looking at programming and website building in the Linux world.
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Open Source alternative
how about S.C.R.E.E.M.
http://www.screem.org/
Just a couple of things SCREEM is missing, asp and asp.net support.
and some templates.
[ like most of those ]
But for a code view only website development and maintenance tool, it is definitely worth a look.
With built in support for CVS, site publishing, XML editing, and most scripted languages, it is actually a fairly decent tool.
The biggest real drawback is that it required the gnomevfs libs to function. Though the developers may migrate it to using fuse instead.