Any differences shop (admin only) using these o/s

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Hi there,

 

Is there any diffs between uisng the shop for addding products, contribs etc, on a..

 

1. Win XP machine with a Linux partition for Red hat 8

 

2. Same Win XP with the latets shell for Apache,Php,MyAdmin,mySQL etc.?

 

I am setting up a notebook and need one or the other for 'off server' access.

 

If I can get away with just using the 'shell' I will rather than the full partition which takes up a lot of space.

 

Thanks

 

Dave