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It’d probably help if it had a company like Red Hat offering enterprise support and contributing back to it. Knowledge certification helps a ton too. It’s all f

by ianai 4y ago

It’d probably help if it had a company like Red Hat offering enterprise support and contributing back to it. Knowledge certification helps a ton too. It’s all fun and games until the SME leaves and a company finds out how hard it is to hire another person with skills in that OS.

toyg 4y ago
It'd probably help also if they could find a killer-app role. Currently it's a decent OS only for low-level devices like routers and firewalls, which are a fairly small part of the computing ecosystem (and even there, it has lost a lot of ground to OSes that exploit multithreading better, hence giving faster throughput). As an application-development platform there are roadblocks at every turn and no real use-case. The community is even hostile to not-C developers. It's a shame, because the simplicity and security are great.
- cylinder714 4y ago
  >a decent OS only for low-level devices Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? My 2011 ThinkPads run Firefox and LibreOffice just fine. It's not as polished as Fedora, sure, but I never have to reinstall after upgrading trashes grub, which happened to me earlier this year.
  - toyg 4y ago
    It's not a smear, it's a realistic assessment of its market position. And I say that as someone who likes it.
  - nix23 4y ago
    >Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? Because they never used it on a Desktop for a extended time, however i use FreeBSD and can play any Game Linux can...thanks to Proton. Fedora polished? Ever seen those SELinux problems after updates?
nix23 4y ago
If a admin comes to me and tells me he understands Linux but is not capable of learning any BSD...kick in the butt and goodbye. Don't search for Linux-Admins but real ones..the one's who are also capable to maintain Windows, and if they have no clue they start to learn.
- ianai 4y ago
  As that guy where I work, agreed.

by ianai 4y ago

toyg 4y ago

It'd probably help also if they could find a killer-app role. Currently it's a decent OS only for low-level devices like routers and firewalls, which are a fairly small part of the computing ecosystem (and even there, it has lost a lot of ground to OSes that exploit multithreading better, hence giving faster throughput). As an application-development platform there are roadblocks at every turn and no real use-case. The community is even hostile to not-C developers. It's a shame, because the simplicity and security are great.

cylinder714 4y ago
>a decent OS only for low-level devices Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? My 2011 ThinkPads run Firefox and LibreOffice just fine. It's not as polished as Fedora, sure, but I never have to reinstall after upgrading trashes grub, which happened to me earlier this year.
- toyg 4y ago
  It's not a smear, it's a realistic assessment of its market position. And I say that as someone who likes it.
- nix23 4y ago
  >Why do people insist on smearing OpenBSD like this? Because they never used it on a Desktop for a extended time, however i use FreeBSD and can play any Game Linux can...thanks to Proton. Fedora polished? Ever seen those SELinux problems after updates?

nix23 4y ago

If a admin comes to me and tells me he understands Linux but is not capable of learning any BSD...kick in the butt and goodbye. Don't search for Linux-Admins but real ones..the one's who are also capable to maintain Windows, and if they have no clue they start to learn.

ianai 4y ago
As that guy where I work, agreed.