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Also things are deceptively simple. There's of course the initial hiccup for new users since the setup is a tad esoteric, but once past that, using it is very s
by eksith 12y ago
Also things are deceptively simple. There's of course the initial hiccup for new users since the setup is a tad esoteric, but once past that, using it is very straightforward.
It's not quite "set it and forget it" for servers, but pretty close IMHO.
There's an attitude among the developers of making it extremely difficult to run sub-par code on the OS, which makes the overall quality of most ported apps high, quite stable and (unpleasant)surprise-free.
- thaumaturgy 12y agoIt's very close to set-it-and-forget-it. A buddy of mine is an overworked (and underpaid) sysadmin for a small ISP, and commented the other day that the OpenBSD firewall that I built for them 7 years ago (!) is still humming along nicely, they're still using and tuning its rulesets, and it wasn't vulnerable to shellshock. (This isn't to say that not updating a firewall for 7 years is good practice, obviously. I shouldn't have to say that, but HN.)