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BSDs do change stuff too. OpenBSD recently replaced sendmail with OpenSMTPD, and apache with nginx. FreeBSD 10 has some big changes[1], depending on what you're doing with it.

Still, in general I agree. I run OpenBSD as my main desktop system because it works and mostly stays out of my way.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html

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Just a heads-up, OpenBSD is actually removing nginx from the base install in favor of httpd.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140827065755

Edit: Adding in the link to the actual commit: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140908174910713&w=2

Wow that was pretty fast, by OpenBSD standards. nginx was just added to base a release or two ago. Thanks.

It's understandable when you know that httpd was spun out of relayd: they basically had almost all the work done and figured they'd might as well do the last few bits needed ot make it a standalone HTTP daemon.

Actually, OpenBSD just replaced nginx with their own httpd.

What httpd would that be?

I thought they replaced their custom Apache with (also custom) Nginx.

They wrote their own. A completely new implementation.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/...

For some rationale, see this comment (by Reyk): http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140827065755&pi...

Nginx is considerably larger than the old Apache was. Commits that took it to a new version were pretty big. I didn't see a whole lot of OpenBSD developers hardening the code. Simple and small seems to be the OpenBSD way. I like it.

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