yup, I dont use freebsd as my dev env. In fact , I use windows(thats a separate thread) for dev with mongrel for windows and deploy<br>on freebsd. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Philip Hallstrom</b> <<a href="mailto:mongrel@philip.pjkh.com">mongrel@philip.pjkh.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> My only gripe with FreeBSD is/was all the ports not being binary. I<br>> know binary versions are out there, but I could never find them. I<br><br>Ironically that's what I hate about RPM's and friends... But I don't use
<br>FreeBSD as a desktop so can imagine compiling gnome/openoffice would take<br>all day and then some :)<br><br>> TextDrive servers are still FreeBSD, AFAIK, although they are<br>> threatening to switch to Solaris for its ZFS file system, so FreeBSD
<br>> should be a fine choice for a Rails server. Just be sure to use<br>> Mongrel, not FastCGI! :)<br><br>We switched from lighttpd/fastcgi to apache/mongrel at work and it's a<br>*world* of difference. I will never, ever go back.
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