Absolutely. It depends on the hardware. I've found if all you're doing is developing then FreeBSD is fine. If you bring simple multi-media use cases into the m

Absolutely. It depends on the hardware. I've found if all you're doing is developing then FreeBSD is fine. If you bring simple multi-media use cases into the mix then things get a bit hairy. Ubuntu certainly helps, but it's also hairy when things go wrong or get close to going wrong. I just turn my Mac on and get on with working in a Unix environment.