Damn. That was a lot of words. Haha!
Anyway, Let's get started.
You need to have the minimum environment similar to mine. That means:
Dual core, amd64, 1.6GHz. 1G RAM, 120GB hard drive on a laptop.
- The laptop was given to me when I was helping a friend. His broke and I replaced it with an older one. That will be another post-
Install the FreeBSD base system to your laptop. You can use a desktop if you want, the minimum requirements are the same.
Install lynx from /usr/ports/www/lynx . It will pull in a lot of base dependencies and gives you a decent text based web browser.
Earlier on, I had mentioned having others help you. If there is a Linux or BSD group near you, ask them to help with a base install along with a few ports.
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/User_Groups/North_America/United_States/
Install and setup Xorg.
If you are going for the bells, whistles, and what not, then you will need a lot more processing power.
So, what desktop environments are good for developing?
Blackbox http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/
Openbox http://openbox.org/
Xfce http://www.xfce.org/
lxde http://lxde.org/
The basic idea is to have the base system use the least amount of resources.
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