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Which OS do you use for development?

• cperciva 9y ago
  Umm... FreeBSD?
• jrowley 9y ago
  It's a fair question. Many people use FreeBSD just for servers and use other distros for their workstations.
  • cperciva 9y ago
    I guess so. It seems strange to me that anyone would want to inflict upon themselves the pain of using different environments for development vs. production, though.
    • jrowley 9y ago
      You'd think so, but I bet a large portion of developers on hacker news develop on a mac and run their apps in production on a linux distro. At least for web apps.
      • cperciva 9y ago
        Could be. I know a lot of Mac owners who only ever do three things directly in OS X though: Run a web browser, use video conferencing software, and launch linux and BSD virtual machines.