[karmakaze]

I tried to use OpenBSD for software development and deployments. It didn't work well because it seemed that packages didn't get as much use judging by inconsistent documentation and sometimes faulty defaults. I didn't care enough to contribute to fix the issues I ran into. Instead I went back to the Ubuntu LTS as before.

I briefly also looked at kFreeBSD with a Debian userland to address the issue but it seemed to be even less well traveled.

[sirn]

I wonder what kind of development and deployments you do and whether FreeBSD might work better. For instance, FreeBSD packages (ports/pkgng) has two branches: latest and quarterly. I've found latest often closely tracking upstream releases.

My work consist of Elixir/Erlang development and a bit of deployments with Kubernetes/Helm/Kapitan/Jsonnet. I primarily work on iPad and login to the FreeBSD workspace via Blink.sh/Mosh and it all worked really well.

That said, if your work involve Haskell and Stack, you might want to stick with FreeBSD 11.2 since Stack still hasn't release a version that supported FreeBSD 12 (which broke due to FreeBSD 12.0 change to inode64)

[karmakaze]

My motivation for trying *BSD over Linux is for security/stability which is OpenBSD's goal more than FreeBSD.