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

TrueOS

TrueOS, the evolution of PC-BSD, is built on top of FreeBSD.

With just a click or two in the App Cafe (package manager built into TrueOS), I installed OpenJDK 8 Update 102 (the latest) and NetBeans 8.1 (the latest).

Took about three minutes for the automated download and install by App Cafe. Then launched NetBeans and had a Hello World app up and running in another minute.