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nelsonicyesterday at 2:02 PM6 repliesview on HN

With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.


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pjmlpyesterday at 8:49 PM

Unfortunately the hardware support isn't there for many systems.

If I had to pick a BSD, it would be FreeBSD anyway.

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infinetyesterday at 5:27 PM

I tried OpenBSD recently and found it behaves very differently from other OS. The same code works on Linux/FreeBSD/Windows but has poor multi thread performance on OpenBSD, async socket stopped working after sending at high speed for few seconds. I am not saying there is anything wrong in OpenBSD, it is just different.

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maxall4yesterday at 3:19 PM

Is OpenBSD actually more secure than Linux? I have not been able to find any data to support this—only some vague opinions.

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fsfloveryesterday at 2:48 PM

If you care about security, why not consider Qubes OS? Related discussion: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubesos-vs-openbsd-security/790...

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rs_rs_rs_rs_rsyesterday at 2:22 PM

>it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD

https://x.com/ortegaalfredo/status/2055362910415671459

When your super secure feature gets defeated by a symlink maybe it's not really time to consider it...

Sure, things are not better in the linux world but at least there's more eyes to fix issues there just because of the market share.

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ykurtovyesterday at 2:20 PM

What? How long did it take?

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