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I love OpenBSD but it's not very good for professional work, especially involving ml/scientific computing. No CUDA, and performance is pretty bad all around. It
by smabie 6y ago
I love OpenBSD but it's not very good for professional work, especially involving ml/scientific computing. No CUDA, and performance is pretty bad all around. It is superbly designed and probably the highest quality Unix around. It's unfortunate that Linux ever gained traction.
- mikem170 6y agoI was curious about what kind of performance problems you bumped into, outside of the obvious non-existent CUDA support? I ask because I had the impression that openbsd was doing ok in this regard. I use it for development and running apps with a lot of concurrent processes and hadn't noticed any problems. These benchmarks [0] have it doing better than almost all linux distributions when it comes to compilation times (but I know benchmarks are not always as objective as they could be). My youtubes and media players run great :-) It's been a while since I did any heavy networking, but I never had problems/surprises there as long as I spec'd out appropriate hardware, in particular the pf firewall and the hw accelerated ipsec and qos configs which I got pretty far into were outstanding, better than cisco hardware costing a lot more at the time. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsds-phoronix-14&num=1 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsds-pho...
- smabie 6y agomy workload is heavily compute constrained and I notice a big difference in the performance/time of my analyses on OpenBSD vs Linux. Most other people probably wouldn't notice it that much though. Edit: tbqh I haven't used openBSD in a couple years, so things might have (probably?) changed since then.