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OpenBSD is more conservative and security-minded, so I'd say network edge. Interestingly though, its laptop hardware support has historically been better.
by thijsvandien 8y ago
OpenBSD is more conservative and security-minded, so I'd say network edge. Interestingly though, its laptop hardware support has historically been better.
- LeoPanthera 8y agoOpenBSD devs actually tend to use OpenBSD on their own systems (and most of them own ThinkPads), which, weirdly, is not the case with most FreeBSD devs, who run something else on their desktop.
- loeg 8y agoThis isn't necessarily a fair characterization of FreeBSD devs, although it's probably pretty close. I'd guess about 50-50 FreeBSD vs Mac users.
- xmj 8y agoThis has noticeably changed in past years. More and more thinkpads, more and more dogfooding
- xenadu02 8y agoI'm guessing this is because macOS pulls from FreeBSD on a semi-regular basis.
- umanwizard 8y agoMaybe they pull some things sometimes but I get the sense their command-line tools in general are just unmaintained and collecting dust. Do you have a citation that they pull regularly? FWIW: ~ man rm | tail -n1 BSD January 28, 1999 BSD
- loeg 8y agoThey pulled at least once, historically, but don't seem to pull on a regular basis. Anyone who wants newer tools than the few they keep updated installs homebrew.