alt Hacker NewsI'm running OpenBSD as a daily driver and one of its nicer point is not the security angle, but how simple and hackable it is, while still fairly capable in terms of hardware support. Linux may be more convenient, but its subsystems are too complex and not prone to quick modifications.
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> Linux may be more convenient, but its subsystems are too complex and not prone to quick modifications.
LFS/BLFS. Which BSD has that?
I don't disagree with you fully, mind you, but I think this is mostly because many more noobs use Linux, whereas on the BSDs more people with a lot of knowledge use it. But even then I would reason that there are more experts using Linux than OpenBSD, simply due to numbers alone. Not all of them can be bothered to write blogs either. (And sometimes they have reallife hardships suddenly, such as Fefe.)
There is a reason the top 500 supercomputers all run Linux. No BSDs there.
Yep. While I've yet to run it on my production workstation, I absolutely love it for single purpose tasks.