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I like OpenBSD the best of them all. The project has principles and they stick to them. It is simple and understandable and people like Stuart Henderson are ver
by 16s 16y ago
I like OpenBSD the best of them all. The project has principles and they stick to them. It is simple and understandable and people like Stuart Henderson are very helpful with ports and new developers. It's a much smaller and friendly project than you may believe.
Theo and Ted and Marco and OGA and all the other devs are great and they are all very open about everything they do. I only have one majpr concern with OpenBSD:
* Multiple CPUs/Cores
With the lateral move by Intel and AMD to more and more cores rather than more hertz the future of CPU processing seems very clear. The problem is that OpenBSD has primitive SMP support, and is nowhere near FreeBSD or Linux. It's hard to find single core servers these days and in a few years, 12 or 16 cores will probably be entry level and 48 to 64 will be common... maybe more.
In short, I hope OpenBSD can keep up with multiple CPUs/cores. Otherwise it will seem just wrong to load it on new servers.
If they do not keep up, I would still buy the CDs to support the project and its many side projects (OpenSSH, OpenBGP, OpenNTP, the new smtp system, etc.). Even if you, as a Unix user absolutely hate OpenBSD for whatever reason, you should still buy the CDs to support OpenSSH.