With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.
OpenBSD 7.9
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Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#12the canadian OS :)
Yes free from American restrictions. Because America law prohibits from giving out cryptography to outside countries so according to OpenBSD we outsiders have no luck in getting a cryptographically secure operating system except for OpenBSD
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#13Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).
open-bsd will always feel like a safe pick for anything in regard to vault or key holding ; it's not appropriate to run anything CPU intensive - but it's a very appropriate system for anything that just need to boot up and hold some data ; eventually expose a network interface.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#14Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).
We use OpenBSD for our VPSes on Hetzner, bare metal (for security focussed clients) and older (but still good) hardware in our Home Lab. OpenBSD is excellent on older (no longer supported by Cupertino) Apple hardware. We have an Intel Mac Mini Cluster with near-perfect uptime. If you need to run any kind of server (Web, Mail, DNS, NFS, Database) where you need stability & security, look no further.
Some learning curve, but totally worth it.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#15the canadian OS :)
Developed at 4500ft elevation in the Texas of Canada, primarily.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#16A song released with it too! So much care for OpenBSD.
Nice! Had to lookup when one was last released, 7.3. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#17BSDs are interesting projects. As I understand it there's a broad difference of them all doing things reasonably well but a) Free is general-purpose, b) Net is especially portable/many architecture and Open is security focused
I have used OpenBSD as a desktop for 7 years. Though my usage and the machine were minimal. But I thoroughly liked it. I want to go back to it. One good thing is that if your hardware has some problems or about to have problems then installing OpenBSD will make your computer kernel panic. So I use it as a diagnosing tool for my hardware
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#18Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).
Single tenant(and single core) tiny VMs with OpenBSD's VMM hypervisor and confidential computing through AMD-SEV.
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#19Anyone here using OpenBSD? If so, for what purpose? I’ve always wanted to use NetBSD for an application for an embedded system / IoT device but never had the pleasure (yet!).
I use it. It's secure, and if your hardware is supported it mostly just works. A good unix experience if you're willing to learn its intricacies
Re: OpenBSD 7.9
#20BSDs are interesting projects. As I understand it there's a broad difference of them all doing things reasonably well but a) Free is general-purpose, b) Net is especially portable/many architecture and Open is security focused
I always wanted to get into bsd, especially openbsd. I like the idea of a more cohesive os. But I don't really know what to use it for to get started. My desktop runs linux with steam for games. My AI server needs rocm drivers so ubuntu-server. My vps runs debian, maybe that one, but there is no DO image for BSD. Open for ideas..
FreeBSD would work well for your purposes, it has a really good hypervisor and linux abi compatibility