[zdw]

This reads like a mid-2000's "BSD is dying" slashdot post...

1) GNU extensions aren't always well thought out or standardized. Assuming everywhere is a current GNU userland will break frequently on multiple non-Linux OS's - look up trying to use `awk` on MacOS, which has BSD derived version.

2) Trendy developer conveniences with half-assed security like containers aren't really in line with OpenBSD's goals. If you want isolation, look into chroot, pledge, and unveil.

3) I'd blame Cisco in this case, not OpenBSD.

4) Says who? If a browser works, most people will be happy. The main use case for OpenBSD is network appliances like routers and infrastructure serving.

[infraredcabbage]

You're right, it is a BSD is dying post, only a decade later.

I agree with everything that you said. In an ideal world, we could all convince our colleagues that Docker and SELinux and Apparmor and such things are crap, and that everyone should be using OpenBSD alternatives. This is nothing but wishful thinking, however.

I wish the industry (and Cisco) would know about OpenBSD and wish to use it, but alas, this is not the case.

Yes, the main use is a fairly narrow part of possible uses, and introducing a whole new OS, package system and command set just because you prefer pf over nftables seems like something most of your colleagues would be a little disgruntled with.

[clarry]

> 1) GNU extensions aren't always well thought out or standardized. Assuming everywhere is a current GNU userland will break frequently on multiple non-Linux OS's - look up trying to use `awk` on MacOS, which has BSD derived version.

Even Linux isn't as consistent as some would have you believe. I regularly find that builds or application breaks because Red Hat is different from Ubuntu. And then, busybox is different from RHEL and Ubuntu. Also, busybox is different from older version of busybox.

I run into this often enough because customer runs stuff on RHEL while my company uses Ubuntu for development. And I happen to be working on an application that runs on different boards with different versions of busybox, as well as on mainstream x86-64 distros..