How good is FreeBSD as a development platform?

Question

I know that lots of web hosting providers are offering FreeBSD, but how good is FreeBSD as a development platform?

Specifically, is Java 1.6 available in it? Is there s

Answer 1

A popular OS (Linux, Windows or even Mac OS X) is better. Popular OS gets better support on optimization of compilers, libraries, etc. For example, FreeBSD is tier 2 platform for GHC (that means GHC may release new versions even if it cannot run on FreeBSD). And some programing languages are only available on Windows or Linux.