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I've got a home router running on OpenBSD, for a mix of practical and educational purposes. I've found pf to be particularly nice - it's much easier to work wi
by mstevens 16y ago
I've got a home router running on OpenBSD, for a mix of practical and educational purposes.
I've found pf to be particularly nice - it's much easier to work with than iptables for me.
Like all the BSDs, it has man pages for everything, which is an extremely nice aspect.
The main thing that I don't like about OpenBSD is the increased update hassle as compared to, for example, Debian.
I'd probably use OpenBSD everywhere if there was some reasonable equivalent of what you'd do on Debian with "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade".
- silentbicycle 16y agoThe OpenBSD packaging system's update infrastructure has really improved within the last year. It might be worth another look. I do porting, and very frequently update to a recent snapshot, then update all ports. I haven't had problems with it for a while. And yeah, best router/firewall OS ever.
- mstevens 16y agoHow do you find running snapshots? I always figured just from the name you could expect them to have problems.
- silentbicycle 16y agoThe snapshot computer is my main desktop (amd64), and in general, I haven't had problems. (On second thought, updating "very frequently" is probably an exaggeration - more like monthly/biweekly.) One time I noticed that my CD burner had stopped working, but I hadn't used it for several months before that anyway, and it went away on a subsequent update. Other than that, no problems.