[micro_softy]

You never tried NetBSD?

If you are suggesting NetBSD has more things enabled by default than OpenBSD I would bet that is incorrect. I have tried a lot of different projects and NetBSD is the best I have seen for not enabling anything. It forces you to figure things out.

Whenever I read OpenBSD mailing lists or blogs, they often seem more aggressive in trying to make their users adhere to the default system provided. That's fine, but NetBSD generally does not do this. Users are not assumed to be idiots and are not discouraged from experimentation.

The BSD projects share more similarities than differences. None of them require anyone to use the entire base system or the defaults. Users can compile their own kernels, write their own configs e.g., based on examples provided, and cherry pick utilities.[1] In my opinion this is made just a tad easier than with Linux.

1. But if you do this with OpenBSD and advertise it, I think you may draw some criticism. Frankensystem, etc. They are not encouraging experimentation, they are encouraging conformity.