I have to say that this covers it pretty well, good HOWTO!
I am a web dev and i have switched to linux alternatives rather than trying to use wine and such.
Bluefish is an execellent editor for web scripting, and by that i mean html, xml, javascript, css, php et all. For classes in php it does colour coding which is nice but that is about all. This has always been enough for me.
Activestate's Komodo although not free is a pretty good php (and others) IDE with proper integration with the interpreter. I mention this non-free software as companies will often stump up £700+ for macromedia products, so less than £200 for an IDE is pretty good value.
For image manipulation GIMP is fine, if you are normally creative with PS then persevere with GIMP it can do alot!
For the simple web stuff that most web developers do (cropping etc) GIMP is pretty easy to use, ie a 10 minute tour.
One thing i have found very useful in my current job is the Terminal Server Client which was bundled in Gnome, which works perfectly to remote desktop to a windows 2003 server on the network. This meant that there was no downtime when switching from windows to linux on my desktop.
As the web servers at work are solaris, having linux as dev servers was easy to sell to the management, but with the promise of no downtime and self support, they saw that developing code on *nix from the start made sense, and saved money.
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