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For development, I run a minimal KDE desktop and use the Kate text editor for most of my work. That and a combination of nano.

For rails work, I have a few machines with lighttpd and fcgi and a one running apache2. For what it's worth, my rails development server is a Pentium 3 with 128 MB ram running lighttpd.

I'll also admit that I use Textmate on an OS X Powerbook via tunneled ssh connections to work on stuff from home.

Caleb

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On Nov 19, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Rawn027 wrote:

Calab, I would like to comment on that I have been fussing around with
gentoo for quite some time now. What WM do you use? I will currently
just be using it on AMD Sempron with 512MB RAM. I really dont have
heavy iron but not really heavy iron is needed for this application
just for development and hosting on the same box. I am going to check
out using Gentoo. What editor on gentoo do you use for development.
Also do you use lighttpd with fcgi?

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I've personally grown comfortable with using Windows as a development
platform, provided that I have my copy of VMware installed. I use FreeBSD as
my VM 'server', not for any specific technical reasons but because it's what
I'm most comfortable with. Sprinkle in a little samba, add subversion to
taste, and I end up with a little developement system that works well for
me.