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A lot of people seem very irrationally angry at OpenBSD. Not sure why.

My experience is limited, but I really liked it. Didn't end up sticking with it for very familiar reasons - lack of http3, third party shitware that it's sometimes convenient to have for work, hardware support. But as a pure OS I thought it was miles above linux. Things fit together so well. And the docs! First time I'd ever read man pages so good that I took notes.

In an alternate reality, where Linux was an obscure OS and OpenBSD got all the love from third party vendors, driver writers, etc - the world would be a better place.

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I have had good experiences with OpenBSD, but I will say that every interaction I've had with Theo has left a bad taste in my mouth, so sometimes I might seem angry...

Should have asked him to drink pineapple juice before the meeting.

Afther Theo called out the Iraq invasion, official FUD became government policy.

No good deed goes unpunished, especially thanks to the reach of the modern state.

I do enjoy using OpenBSD from time to time but it’s clearly an OS developed first and foremost for OBSD devs. This is a fine state of affairs but it’s hard thinking of a good application for it beyond tinkering.

Really? How about router, web server, mail server, daily driver on my laptop? OpenBSD rocks man.

I wrote about it up thread but without a file system I can rely on using it on a router, web server and mail server - do people really bother running mail servers nowadays? - are disqualified. I don't even think it's a "well if you have good backups that doesn't matter" (cattle, not pets etc.) it doesn't have ZFS/btrfs style snapshotting which is massive step back in how I think of backups. The release cadence, upgrade cycle and speed also leave me scratching my head for actual production.

I did enjoy running it on my Lemote as a curiosity, but that port is dead now...my favourite part was the variety of arches it officially supported.

Again, as I stated in my comment, it's made for OpenBSD devs and that's fine - I hope they continue developing.

> A lot of people seem very irrationally angry at OpenBSD. Not sure why.

Could it be because NetApp builds products with it?

Netapp's firmware is based on FreeBSD, not OpenBSD.

Why would that be a bad thing? (I am not familiar with netapp)

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