Last week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD.
↫ Joel Carnat
Here’s my short pitch as to why you should use OpenBSD: it’s the closest you’ll get to a traditional, classic UNIX, while still using a modern and maintained operating system. OpenBSD just makes sense, and every time I run into some issue or I want to know how something in OpenBSD works, the answers always make me go “well that makes sense”.
That’s rare in modern computing, and we need to cherish it.
** ahem ** Obligatory reminder of the other original “core” BSDs …
NetBSD (Apr/93)
FreeBSD (Nov/93)
… which share the same authentic UNIX roots as OpenBSD (Jul/96).
I don’t agree that OpenBSD is any more of a “traditional Unix” than NetBSD or Illumos
We can thank OpenBSD for supplying the world with a solid ssh client and server.