On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Mayuresh <mayur...@acm.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:54:56AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: >> Oh, and missed one very important point: >> * OpenBSD is not determined to dominate the world, and fast. >> >> -Amarendra > > Thanks. That was a very good summary. > > Also thanks to an earlier post by Shridhar on FreeBSD. > > I happen to have tried out both FreeBSD and NetBSD in the meantime. I will > post my experiences in a separate mail. > > Can you just clarify above statement? You meant OpenBSD is determined or > not to be fast?!
Haha, that was intended as a sly take on Linux - I remember Linus mentioning "World domination. Fast." in an interview (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/36). OpenBSD has no such aims - the developers write code because they want to write it, and compete with no one or no OS. Hence, you will find almost no benchmarks done for OpenBSD. > Till now my impression of OepnBSD is the word security. Well I appreciate > that where it is needed, though I am looking for a regular desktop that's > not exposed to internet and is for personal use. > > Now, if OpenBSD is not _only_ about security, as compared to other BSD > siblings, I'd kind of like to give it a try someday. [...] OpenBSD is about "correctness", so security, reliability and robustness are included as a by-product. The code is clean, frequently-audited, and bugs are fixed faster than any other OS I know. Plus, there is not much debate on the severity and priority - a bug is a bug, and it gets fixed as soon as someone sends the bug-report. I've seen grammatical typos' in their man pages fixed within 2 hrs. of being reported. So saying OpenBSD is just about security would be incorrect. Their motto is to be "free, functional and secure". I think you are concerned with functionality, which happens to be one of their goal as well. :-) I use OpenBSD on my laptop, and it works fine and does all jobs that I want it to do - internet via firefox, word processing via LibreOffice, mail via sylpheed/mutt/pine being important amongst them. -Amarendra _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
