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by chrismsnz 3943 days ago
> How do you justify the 1.3% share on servers[1]?

OpenBSD is a research operating system.

A lot of their development and deployment methods do not align with the needs/wants of large infrastructure deployments (e.g. biannual releases, supported for 1 year).

Happy to cull/reinvent legacy to suit modern systems and practices (e.g. utf8, doas, opensmtpd/ntpd/bgpd/sshd etc...)

Refusal to support hardware without documentation or binary kernel blobs.

Focus on simplicity and correctness, rather than legacy and kludges, which often gets in the way of sysadmins wanting to Get Stuff Working.

Take your pick?

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Truth is, I know ... But it gives me a small but substantial amount of pleasure teasing OpenBSD fans :-P

That said, I am grateful to OpenBSD developers because I use their software daily: OpenSMTPd, PF, SPAMd and SSH.