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OpenBSD is an really polished operating system built to a much higher, tighter standard than Linux and the GNU libraries are. I used it right up until "cloud co

OpenBSD is an really polished operating system built to a much higher, tighter standard than Linux and the GNU libraries are. I used it right up until "cloud computing", and then for economic reasons needed to use Linux instead. The biggest problem with OpenBSD has been lack of support for hardware and virtualization, though a lot of the reason for this has been the OpenBSD team's own hostility towards virtualization. I get their reasoning (virtualization is a security issue), but the economic consequences have been devastating to their userbase. The cost difference and ability to run on cheaper hardware was a big reason Linux won out over Windows. It's important to make operating systems accessible to everyone, even those that can't afford full dedicated servers.

protomyth 11y ago
"The biggest problem with OpenBSD has been lack of support for hardware and virtualization, though a lot of the reason for this has been the OpenBSD team's own hostility towards virtualization. I get their reasoning (virtualization is a security issue), but the economic consequences have been devastating to their user base." If you watch the the ruBSD 2013 interview video with Theo de Raadt[1] at the 6:36, he states that they should take a shot at dealing with modern x86 VMs. That gives me quite a bit of hope along with the work on vmware related drivers in each release. I use VMware at work, seems to do ok. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS8ljif9b8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXS8ljif9b8