FreeBSD support for remote sessions

[noamross]

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Describe the feature

This is a request for remote/SSH support for FreeBSD systems. FreeBSD remote hosts are probably more common than desktops. Currently, attempting to start a remote session with a FreeBSD server results in this error:

+ curl -f https://zed.dev/install.sh
+ sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  4327  100  4327    0     0  10084      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10086
Unsupported platform FreeBSD

⏵ Task `Install zed over ssh` finished with non-zero error code: 1

This is more limited than #15309, which is for general support for FreeBSD.

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[attilagyorffy]

If anyone wants to pick this up, the relevant docs and posts I have found are currently these:

• SSH Remoting is Here! (Blog)
• Remote Development

[ConradIrwin]

It looks like the remote server doesn't yet compile on FreeBSD, but the first round of compilation errors seem relatively fixable if anyone wants to take this on (the Rust language adapter doesn't know what platform it's running on to download rust analyzer).

Once we have that working we can at least help with the "self-serve" version where you compile and upload the remote server; and I'd be open to figuring out to how to publish freeBSD builds too.

[attilagyorffy]

For the time being, I decided to use the rmate protocol which is quite simple. By running a local server and opening files on remote hosts using a simple shell implementation of the rmate client I can use Zed as my local editor and "push" changes to my remote servers once I hit save. This is quite useful already, even though it doesn't provide a full directory-tree and the capabilities of a full remote session.