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I use OpenBSD on both my remote (VPS) and home (a tiny pcengine box with 3 NICs) servers. Naturally, they do some IPv6/IPsec/tunneling and other shenanigans wit
by anyfoo 8y ago
I use OpenBSD on both my remote (VPS) and home (a tiny pcengine box with 3 NICs) servers. Naturally, they do some IPv6/IPsec/tunneling and other shenanigans with each other, and the home server is the router and firewall for probably overly complex home network.
It is an absolute joy, and often I just mess around with the system for the fun of it. One of the compelling factors is that, unlike with a modern Linux distribution, I practically always have the impression of having full reach and understanding of the whole system, mainly because of OpenBSD's impressive consistency and documentation through man-pages.
- snazz 8y agoHave you tried it on a desktop yet? I’ve talked about my experiences a couple of times (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280736), and I like it so much that it’s now the only OS on my primary desktop and laptop.
- mruts 8y agoI love OpenBSD, I used to run it as my primary computer. The only problem is that the performance is pretty terrible, and they are only just now getting rid of the global spinlock that kills SMP performance for a lot of workloads.
- anyfoo 8y agoI did, in fact, but that was over 10 years ago, so I don't think my experience counts anymore!
- jplayer01 8y agoMan, I'd love to run a BSD, but I'm so spoiled by the convenience of the AUR and immediate access to the latest packages and any packages I could ever possibly want or need, that I don't think I'd last a week.
- c17r 8y agoI too have a 3-nic pcengine running OpenBSD. DHCP, DNS, routing, firewall, and VPN. It just does it’s thing, no fuss no muss that it’s quite boring (everything you want in your head end device). I’m very pleased.
- black-tea 8y agoIf you were to use Linux again you should try Gentoo, without systemd, if you want the "full reach" feeling.