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by ChuckMcM 5575 days ago
Wow, another reason to check back in with OpenBSD. Regardless of the meta debate on C++'s virtues or issues, having the core system build with just C would seem to help in simplifying things.

I am perhaps in the minority but I would really like a straight forward to build and maintain UNIX derivative and perhaps this can be it.
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silentbicycle 5574 days ago
I know I'm just one data point, but I've been quite happy with OpenBSD as my primary OS for over 7 years.

I'm running Debian on a spare laptop for "common Linux distro" testing purposes, but am continually annoyed by it.

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adbge 5574 days ago
Not being familiar with OpenBSD, what are some of the pain points you have when using Debian that you don't experience with OpenBSD?
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silentbicycle 5574 days ago
I don't like apt-get. The way they break up packages is annoying and sometimes leads to debian-specific forks. I also hoped that Debian's vastly larger community would mean discovering several good packages apt-get (which I'd port to OpenBSD), but there really hasn't been much that OpenBSD doesn't already have. Disappointing.

GNU coreutils. The BSD userland (the core system) is much better integrated, which affects a great many things. In particular, I really prefer BSD top.

When I installed some recommended package so that closing my netbook's lid would make it suspend, it didn't work. I read the source, and it was so obviously broken (among other things, it was suspending on lid-close AND lid-open) that I just wrote my own. Usually I contribute patches, but...eh. Other stuff that tried to "automagically" configure itself, but didn't work quite right, and interfered with manual configuration.

"This project only has a man page because we want to note that man pages suck, look at the info page instead." I hate empty man pages, and it's particularly annoying because the documentation on OpenBSD is phenomenal.

I prefer /etc/rc.conf to /etc/init.d/ , though that's fairly minor. (I usually run daemons via runit anyway.)

There are probably several other things that don't come to mind at the moment.

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