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by nickpsecurity
3865 days ago
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I'm going on what an OpenBSD supporter or developer... not sure which... said to me in a prior discussion here. I brought up Theo's rant against x86 virtualization. Others showed up to clarify a bit. One posted a video interview where Theo pretty much said they hadn't cared about that and some other things that the market was big on. However, that they'd finally need to adapt and pay more attention to such stuff, esp virtualization. Now, there's a VMM. So, given prior conversation, I thought of their recent efforts to do what they were against or not interested in to be a compromise between how they wanted it and what OpenBSD needed for more use in market. The first of hopefully many which might bring more coders and capabilities to the project. |
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Whenever Theo speaks about OpenBSD he uses the words "research OS". For every developer this might be different, but it's still worked on a From-Developers-For-Developers basis. If anybody else can use it then that's also good. If you want to change it, send patches. Don't demand features, send patches. Don't know how to setup things, read manpages and the faq, if it's not in there find out for yourself and then send patches for the documentation.
Most things are based on a need a developer once had and couldn't live without. That changed a bit since the OpenBSDFoundation got some money and is now paying for development time for features nobody dared to touch so far... like VMM (at least that's what I heard)
For me OpenBSD is not about market share but about best practices.