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by user3939382 310 days ago
I’ve found the OpenBSD community to have a bad/snobbish attitude which could just be a coincidence, no idea. I’ve always liked NetBSD which I never had that problem with.
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My experience is that they expect you to read the docs and ask smart questions. Most of everything is in the documentations, READMEs etc.
Yeah read the docs like their years of invalidated articles, howtos, published books, and more when they decided to make bc breaks in pf.conf for anyone who trusted them to make a firewall that could be upgraded without a site visit.
The horror.

/s

I remember a discussion with an OpenBSD developer whose answer to the lack of a journaling file system was to simply have a UPS, like any normal computer user should have (there are hobby operating systems with journaling FS, but due to the antique development model, OpenBSD developers can't do significant work like a new file system).
They could port WAPBL from NetBSD in no time.