Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

#11

Post by iwjames » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:25 AM UTC

Windows 7 (PC game development). I would probably be on Mac if I could.

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

#12

Post by shii » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:34 AM UTC

No love for BSDs?

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by patio11 » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:37 AM UTC

Windows Seven w/ Ubuntu running in a VM. It would be 100% windows but faking all the server-side components got too tough.

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by justrudd » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:38 AM UTC

An iMac 27" is my main development hardware, but I use VMWare to run Debian where I do all my development. I've also got an i7 Debian Server running where I deploy to make sure stuff works on real hardware before it hits my host. I'm currently in the market for a "sofa programming" laptop. I'm thinking the 11" MacBook Air or the new Lenovo X220.

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by jagira » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:39 AM UTC

Linux Mint + Windows 7 Dual Boot

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by jarin » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:40 AM UTC

2010 Mac Mini with an 8 GB RAM upgrade so I can just leave MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis running all the time without giving me problems when playing Starcraft II.

I have Windows 7 running in Parallels, but the only thing I ever use it for is testing in IE.

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by jarin » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:41 AM UTC

shii wrote: post #12

No love for BSDs?

Does anyone use any BSD distributions other than OS X? ;)

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by nantes » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:47 AM UTC

Yay geek porn!

Desktop -- 2009 Mac Mini 2x2.26ghz/4GB/320GB running Ubuntu 10.04

Laptop -- HP Pavilion dv2700(something or other) AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-60/4GB/60GB SSD(!) running Ubuntu 10.10

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by baddox » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:47 AM UTC

justrudd wrote: post #14

An iMac 27" is my main development hardware, but I use VMWare to run Debian where I do all my development. I've also got an i7 Debian Server running where I deploy to make sure stuff works on real hardware before it hits my host. I'm currently in the market for a "sofa programming" laptop. I'm thinking the 11" MacBook Air or the new Lenovo X220.

I too am interested in the X220, but man are all those ~13 inch laptops pricey.

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by prodigal_erik » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:47 AM UTC

Home is a gaming desktop which dual boots Vista and Ubuntu. Commuting is a new Win7 netbook; Emacs and GHC work fine, so I haven't bothered saving the recovery image and settling on a GNU distro yet. Work is a decrepit XP box due to be replaced, apparently with a Mac, which I guess I'm okay with if OS X (unlike iOS) continues treating owners as human beings and tinkerers. Servers at work are openSUSE.