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> OpenBSD's unfriendly reputation ensured that I languished in Linux land way longer than I should have Funny enough, OpenBSD's unfriendly behavior just had me

> OpenBSD's unfriendly reputation ensured that I languished in Linux land way longer than I should have Funny enough, OpenBSD's unfriendly behavior just had me go back to Linux land after running a FreeNAS server for two years. I got tired of every single help thread I was reading start with "Well you're stupid and you shouldn't do that" in one form or another. Once Ubuntu got mature ZFS support in mainline, I was out.

boring_twenties 7y ago
What does FreeNAS have to do with OpenBSD?
chousuke 7y ago
What does OpenBSD have to do with FreeNAS? Or did you just mean unfriendly behaviour in general. What I've noticed about the OpenBSD mailing lists is that while people are generally decent and helpful if you show that you put at least some effort into your question, I also see negative responses to the less good questions that are just not needed, and without value. I still like OpenBSD because it's just a good OS, but I think some people could stand to tune up their filters a bit.
mistrial9 7y ago
>FreeNAS is a free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) software based on FreeBSD and the OpenZFS file system [0] So its a BSD, but not OpenBSD [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS
rogueresearch 7y ago
I have found the FreeNAS forums to be very helpful and friendly. Besides, like others said, FreeNAS is on FreeBSD, not OpenBSD.
technofiend 7y ago
>I got tired of every single help thread I was reading start with "Well you're stupid and you shouldn't do that" in one form or another. This is why I jokingly call OpenBSD a full contact operating system; interacting with the community can feel like being at the bottom of a rubgy scrum. Still, the hardware requirements are so low and configuration and management easy enough I use it on old refurbished PCs as a firewall. Any refurbished $100 PC from microcenter and a couple of Intel gigabit ethernet cards is enough to make a decent firewall as long as you don't have gigabit ethernet to your ISP. OpenBSD really shines on legacy hardware. I also enjoyed the fact it was the work of a few minutes to cut certificates for all my wifi devices and switch to certificate-based authentication instead of password-based. Unfortunately IOT vendors don't support that so you end up with a separate network just for semi-trusted devices.
justin66 7y ago
> Funny enough, OpenBSD's unfriendly behavior just had me go back to Linux land after running a FreeNAS server for two years. I got tired of every single help thread I was reading start with "Well you're stupid and you shouldn't do that" in one form or another. In fairness to the people who called you stupid, you have some pretty glaring misunderstandings about whichever product you were using. (FreeNAS? OpenBSD?)

boring_twenties 7y ago

What does FreeNAS have to do with OpenBSD?

chousuke 7y ago

What does OpenBSD have to do with FreeNAS? Or did you just mean unfriendly behaviour in general. What I've noticed about the OpenBSD mailing lists is that while people are generally decent and helpful if you show that you put at least some effort into your question, I also see negative responses to the less good questions that are just not needed, and without value. I still like OpenBSD because it's just a good OS, but I think some people could stand to tune up their filters a bit.

mistrial9 7y ago

>FreeNAS is a free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) software based on FreeBSD and the OpenZFS file system [0] So its a BSD, but not OpenBSD [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS

rogueresearch 7y ago

I have found the FreeNAS forums to be very helpful and friendly. Besides, like others said, FreeNAS is on FreeBSD, not OpenBSD.

technofiend 7y ago

>I got tired of every single help thread I was reading start with "Well you're stupid and you shouldn't do that" in one form or another. This is why I jokingly call OpenBSD a full contact operating system; interacting with the community can feel like being at the bottom of a rubgy scrum. Still, the hardware requirements are so low and configuration and management easy enough I use it on old refurbished PCs as a firewall. Any refurbished $100 PC from microcenter and a couple of Intel gigabit ethernet cards is enough to make a decent firewall as long as you don't have gigabit ethernet to your ISP. OpenBSD really shines on legacy hardware. I also enjoyed the fact it was the work of a few minutes to cut certificates for all my wifi devices and switch to certificate-based authentication instead of password-based. Unfortunately IOT vendors don't support that so you end up with a separate network just for semi-trusted devices.

justin66 7y ago

> Funny enough, OpenBSD's unfriendly behavior just had me go back to Linux land after running a FreeNAS server for two years. I got tired of every single help thread I was reading start with "Well you're stupid and you shouldn't do that" in one form or another. In fairness to the people who called you stupid, you have some pretty glaring misunderstandings about whichever product you were using. (FreeNAS? OpenBSD?)