I want to write some general things about OpenBSD / the OpenBSD Communtiy I realized while I gave it a spin just this month (in no particular order): -) they a

I want to write some general things about OpenBSD / the OpenBSD Communtiy I realized while I gave it a spin just this month (in no particular order): -) they are a "pressure cooker" for development, if they have to brake something in order to advance they will. way different mindest when you compare it to the linux kernel or FreeBSD. this does not mean it's unstable, but from version to version they might radically change something. -) they strip down their system, if they don't like a license they don't implement it, and if something is too complicated / too big, they don't implement it. one of the contra-zfs-in-openbsd arguments (besides the license) quite simply is: it's so much code, it's so huge, it would be such an immense amount of work to audit it and to really really understand every single part of it. -) openbsd runs on so many architectures partly because it allows them to catch more bugs. some weird bug you might encounter only while trying to install the system over network on machine xyz that nobody really uses anymore... running on so many multiple architectures gives them more input. -) openbsd-community is way less elitist than people say/think it is. they expect you to have read the manpages (and they made such an effort to make them as good as possible), to maybe search on the internet yourself, to have tried some things out and to know how to use mailing lists, not too much in my opinion. they probably don't even mind the stigma of being elitists, as it keeps newcomers away. getting help is a privilege, not a fundamental right of every user. -) they want others to use their tools. while it is probably unfair considering how many tools they provide and how little funding they get, nevertheless they actually genuinely are happy that their tools are used, which is an awesome mindset. but that probably is generally a bsd-license vs gpl kind of thing. -) run your own sh*t! while many freebsd devs are simply using macs and running freebsd on their servers, openbsd developers are heavily encouraged to run openbsd everywhere they have the chance of doing so. you will find that most (maybe all) devs run it themselves on their notebook/desktop or at least on some of their private machines, which is awesome. Some further resources: -) openbsd faq http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ (especially section 1, 8, 9) -) http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html just give it a spin, why not? run it as virtual machine and play around, some hours worth while