Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining - but why is this news (again)? 5.9 came out, what, two weeks ago. On the other hand, who doesn't love OpenBSD news.

Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining - but why is this news (again)? 5.9 came out, what, two weeks ago. On the other hand, who doesn't love OpenBSD news. So today allow me to point out that since I am a sysadmin at a mostly-Windows shop, I really like how modest OpenBSD's hardware requirements are. If you keep the workload appropriately modest, it can run on 128MB of RAM (probably a lot less, I did not try that hard) on a hard disk that is smaller than Windows' installation DVD and perform useful work. Obviously, the comparison is not without problems, but it comes in handy to explain to people why in some ways I am astonished that you need a dual-core CPU with 8GB of RAM just to run Outlook, Excel and a remote desktop session.