Which is the best Operation System suited for web application development in various platforms like JAVAEE, PHP, Ruby-On-Rails, Perl, Python, if I have missed out anything then that too etc. including testing front end and business logics, version control system like svn/git etc, planning, reporting, life cycle management etc etc? In short, need to cover all aspects for web application engineering.
I have used both Windows and Linux and have felt Linux is better for its great command line capability. I have no idea about development in Mac. My experience in web application development is limited to 3 years and I just need expert opinion.
Linux is great option because of the following:
About the machine configuration more RAM, more HDD space, better CPU, … :). In the company I work, every in-house developed piece of software is developed and hosted on Linux. I really can not remember of any issues we’ve had, except minor hardware related ones.