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[75.168.124.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fm3sm1891995igb.1.2015.06.04.12.46.55 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:46:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brandon J. Wandersee" X-Google-Original-From: Brandon J. Wandersee References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can you tell me something about you development host? In-reply-to: Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:46:44 -0500 Message-ID: <86lhfzfe8r.fsf@WorkBox.Home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:46:58 -0000 Matías Perret Cantoni writes: > Hello everyone! I've been playing around with FreeBSD for about a year > now and I'd like to set a "better" development environment. Right now > I'm running FreeBSD on VirtualBox on top of Linux Mint. > > I use Linux Mint because I need a GUI for web browsing and some rich > text editing. And I use FreeBSD for building images for ARM boards, > and some driver development. > > But this configuration is sometimes a little uncomfortable. Specially for > flashing SD cards, and file exchange between both hosts (Linux and > FreeBSD) > > So, what can you tell me about you development station? > What's your setup? > Can you make me any recommendation? > > I also wonder how do you manage your emails, specially the ones from > this mailing list. Do you use some text based tool? Or just a GUI one? > > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, Matias.- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" These are very general questions that basically warrant three answers: 1) Most (all?) of the software most commonly used by Linux users is available on FreeBSD. 2) Any particular setup one person has certainly won't be the particular sort of setup you want. 3) It's just a fact of software tools (especially in the FOSS world) that you can't really know what you want until you've tried several options. 3a) Asking such general questions is just going to result in people rattling off a long list of every available option, leaving you know closer to a satisfactory answer. The one thing you definitely won't get on FreeBSD is Cinnamon. Other than that, most graphical environments available on Linux are available on FreeBSD. The transition from Linux to FreeBSD is almost certainly going to be easier if you're used to a more minimal environment, and one consisting of more widely used tools, as there's so much less that can go wrong in the transition (your dwm or Emacs or whatever configuration will be the same either way, for example). -- =========================================== :: Brandon Wandersee :: :: brandon.wandersee@zoho.com :: =========================================== 'A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.' - Douglas Adams ===========================================