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tiffanyhtoday at 6:16 PM1 replyview on HN

While I agree, OpenBSD also doesn't fully implement features/functionality.

If your operating system only does 20% of what another operating system can do, it's easier for you to have 80% less bugs.

That's not a knock, it's a design philosophy of OpenBSD (which is to do the minimal needed, and no more, in the most simplistic way).


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somattoday at 6:58 PM

That does not match my experience with obsd. It is not so much minimalism as they are not afraid to reinvent the wheel. A obsd install is full of services, more than most linux installs I have seen.

For example you can imagine my disappointment when I discovered what a pain in the ass it is to get a pflow producer working on linux after doing the first one on openbsd.

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