>>386 I think the OpenBSD people take their OS too seriously. Instead of embracing being an OS for tinkerers and weirdos, they don't want you to deviate from their defaults and only do what's considered well-tested and idiot-proof. They've one way of doing things; the way they like it, and everything else has no place in their OS. This is something I don't like and think the other BSDs like NetBSD and some Linux distributions do better. Other than their sentiment and attitude, they have worse battery time than Linux or FreeBSD (probably due to both having a tickless kernel among other factors, which OpenBSD doesn't have). The security aspect is fine, some of the mitigations are good, but a lot of their "Innovations" page is written with sly wording and lying by omission, them trying to make their OS more important and innovative than it actually was. Gentoo Hardened, Grsecurity, and some of the already in the kernel includes patches fixed stuff already before OpenBSD, in spite of the OpenBSD people claiming otherwise. I don't say that the OpenBSD devs had no good ideas, just that they're somewhat dishonest in the way they market their OS.
I think the OpenBSD people take their OS too seriously. Instead of embracing being an OS for tinkerers and weirdos, they don't want you to deviate from their defaults and only do what's considered well-tested and idiot-proof. They've one way of doing things; the way they like it, and everything else has no place in their OS. This is something I don't like and think the other BSDs like NetBSD and some Linux distributions do better. Other than their sentiment and attitude, they have worse battery time than Linux or FreeBSD (probably due to both having a tickless kernel among other factors, which OpenBSD doesn't have). The security aspect is fine, some of the mitigations are good, but a lot of their "Innovations" page is written with sly wording and lying by omission, them trying to make their OS more important and innovative than it actually was. Gentoo Hardened, Grsecurity, and some of the already in the kernel includes patches fixed stuff already before OpenBSD, in spite of the OpenBSD people claiming otherwise. I don't say that the OpenBSD devs had no good ideas, just that they're somewhat dishonest in the way they market their OS.