[matrix12]

Poorly written, if I may be honest. Having attended cookouts with Theo, and also contributed to their system. I'd say "OpenSSH BSD", if I had to sell it. Hide any of the mailing lists from potential customers. Fixate on well known supported hardware. Use what the devs use. If one must use the mailing lists, you never EVER ask a question. Instead state a contrary fact, and await the answers. The distro is Theo, simply put. So you get a regular release where most things just work.* But you must know what you plan to run it on, and exactly which chipsets are in use. The man pages on drivers for OpenBSD are superb for listing all known hardware that is compatible.

And if software, or hardware X is not supported, go do it, or get supported software/hardware instead.

[chasil]

Unfortunately, there were periods in the past where it did not sell well.

"The bad news is that OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD ($40K total). I don't think I need to explain in many words what that is doing to our beloved OS, and worse, our main systems architect. This is starting to seriously impede the development of OpenBSD and OpenSSH...

"What I want to point out what a lot of people don't seem to realize is that OpenSSH development is paid from the same pool of money as OpenBSD. OpenSSH is in use by millions around the world however the revenue stream just simply isn't there."

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20060321034114

[matrix12]

As a follow up, I'd suggest taking a livecd of OpenBSD to a place that sells laptops. Test boot it, verify it works, and purchase it. I've done this before, although your mileage may vary.

[na85]

Laptops haven't had CD drives in years.

[matrix12]

You would not seek out newish laptops typically in this case.

[matrix12]

Live img.

[doublepg23]

I’m picturing what would happen if I went to my local Best Buy and tried booting a live USB…