Re: Remote development with neovim, tmux and SSH from macOS?

One more vote for FreeBSD in emulation. I have been running it for years in
VirtualBox on now-ancient Mac hardware. Works fine but Apple Silicon (M*
chips) is not there yet. UTM looks good but I haven't needed to go there.

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 4:29 PM Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote:

> > On Feb 28, 2024, at 14:37, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> >
> > It appears that Simon Connah <simon.n.connah@protonmail.com> said:
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> >> -=-=-=-=-=-
> >>
> >> I've just set up a FreeBSD server and was curious about the best
> practices for when it comes to developing on FreeBSD? I have a Mac
> >> Studio but I'm not used to neovim or tmux at all and I get the feeling
> that learning them is going to take some time.
> >>
> >> What do you use for developing on FreeBSD servers? Unfortunately I
> can't install FreeBSD on my machine (well I can but it would be in
> >> VMware Fusion Pro).
> >
> > FreeBSD works great in virtual machines. See Chapter 24.3 of the
> > FreeBSD handbook for advice on installing it with VMware.
> >
> > I'm running FBSD under Fusion on my M2 Macbook, using NFS to share
> > files between native Mac and the FBSD virtual machine, and X1
> > applications on BSD displaying with Xquartz on the Mac.
>
>
> I run a number of servers with FreeBSD 14.0 on Mac Mini's.  I run them on
> the bare hardware.  The boot is very slow as it takes the Mac awhile to
> decide to boot in non-Mac mode.  I use SSH to connect to them from a
> variety of machines.  I also have several of those off-site for backups.
> All the machines have power and ethernet only.  Currently all are the Intel
> Minis I believe although I have run FreeBSD 13 on a M1 Mini for awhile to
> test it out.  I have recently been using Raspberry Pi 4s as they are
> cheaper, smaller, and use less power.  They are a bit slower for disk
> access, but otherwise just as powerful.
>
> My console system is an M1 mini with a large screen etc.  Terminal works
> fine although I use JellifiSSH to manage the connections.
>
> -- Doug
>
>
>

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