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Subject: Re: I need a freebsd 5.3 desktop server; recommendations?
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On 6/17/06, Dan Bikle <dan.bikle@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anish,
>
> Thanks this is good info.
>
> I'll be using this server for development of a Ruby on Rails.
>
> Currently I do development on a Mac.
>
> My production server is running freeBSD 5.3
>
> I want a development environment which is closer to production
> than my Mac is.

You really don't need to use 5.3 unless there are some apps you use on
5.3 and won't work on 6.1.  I have rails apps running on everything
from 4.11 up, and rails itself works the same on all of them.  You
might also try using something like vmware desktop instead of a whole
new server.