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Can you use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020?

Jeremy Morgan on February 21, 2020

FreeBSD is a solid choice on a server, and it's ubiquitous in the infrastructure world, but how does it hold up as a desktop machine? As a develope...
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Marko Shiva

Yes why not I used it in the past. but its not preferable to be used as development machine more as a server machine. :0

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ben

Blast. Another distraction to try again!

My work machine is basically KMail, Slack (Electron? I can't remember), Docker and RubyMine (Java-based), so I think it might stand a good chance...

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Marko Shiva

the kdepim should exist on the freebsd and build normal from ports or install with pkg-add. Docker is available so other apps are crossplatform and available as well.