> I'm not saying OpenBSD is a bad operating system. Far from it. However I > would only use it for routers, firewalls, bridges, etc... Anything that > has to do with networking because after all, OpenBSD's networking is > great. Outside these areas OpenBSD is just too slow and doesn't support > enough hardware. complete nonsense, it may be slower in some areas than other os but quite often for a reason. if you rev your engine to the limit and beyond it will die quicker and more often, I prefer something which is _stable_ and no other "mainstream" os I worked with is better in this respect then obsd.
the filesystem for example is not the fastest but, it has a very predictable overall performance and not unlike reiserfs which rockets away in benchmark and crawls to a halt in another or ext2 just dying to often. some software doesn't run as fast as on linux with default parameters but therefore the system doesn't crawl to a halt for you if someone else is running a resource intensive program but makes sure that everyone gets his piece of the cake. obsd is fast, it's not the fastest but gives you the best tradeoff between speed and performance you can get. if you wan't a racecar, go get one, openbsd isn't one but will get you through the desert, the jungle and over the sea. it won't trash, won't break and will not leak and sink. apart from that sometimes one can adjust some knobs and it will race away. -sm
