[LAC-Tech]

A lot of people seem very irrationally angry at OpenBSD. Not sure why.

My experience is limited, but I really liked it. Didn't end up sticking with it for very familiar reasons - lack of http3, third party shitware that it's sometimes convenient to have for work, hardware support. But as a pure OS I thought it was miles above linux. Things fit together so well. And the docs! First time I'd ever read man pages so good that I took notes.

In an alternate reality, where Linux was an obscure OS and OpenBSD got all the love from third party vendors, driver writers, etc - the world would be a better place.

[zippergz]

I have had good experiences with OpenBSD, but I will say that every interaction I've had with Theo has left a bad taste in my mouth, so sometimes I might seem angry...

[jmconfuzeus]

Should have asked him to drink pineapple juice before the meeting.

[midislack]

Afther Theo called out the Iraq invasion, official FUD became government policy.

[HeckFeck]

No good deed goes unpunished, especially thanks to the reach of the modern state.

[doublepg23]

I do enjoy using OpenBSD from time to time but it’s clearly an OS developed first and foremost for OBSD devs. This is a fine state of affairs but it’s hard thinking of a good application for it beyond tinkering.

[hestefisk]

Really? How about router, web server, mail server, daily driver on my laptop? OpenBSD rocks man.

[doublepg23]

I wrote about it up thread but without a file system I can rely on using it on a router, web server and mail server - do people really bother running mail servers nowadays? - are disqualified. I don't even think it's a "well if you have good backups that doesn't matter" (cattle, not pets etc.) it doesn't have ZFS/btrfs style snapshotting which is massive step back in how I think of backups. The release cadence, upgrade cycle and speed also leave me scratching my head for actual production.

I did enjoy running it on my Lemote as a curiosity, but that port is dead now...my favourite part was the variety of arches it officially supported.

Again, as I stated in my comment, it's made for OpenBSD devs and that's fine - I hope they continue developing.

[RajT88]

> A lot of people seem very irrationally angry at OpenBSD. Not sure why.

Could it be because NetApp builds products with it?

[denkmoon]

Why would that be a bad thing? (I am not familiar with netapp)

[fyver]

Netapp's firmware is based on FreeBSD, not OpenBSD.