Can you tell me something about you development host?

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 12:18 -0300, Matías Perret Cantoni wrote:
> 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 very 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?
> 
> 
> Many thanks in advance you all!
> 

I use FreeBSD 10-stable on amd64 as my desktop machine, with MATE as the
desktop environment.  I don't do sound or video stuff on this machine (I
mostly use a Mac for that), but this desktop environment does everything
I need other than multimedia stuff.

-- Ian