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NexRebularlast Monday at 2:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Not counting GPU compute, what exactly is OpenBSD not useful for?


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titularcommentlast Monday at 2:19 PM

Personal laptop use with Ada Lovelace or Ampere family NVIDIA GPUs (did you mean this or CUDA, i couldnt tell), personal desktop use with unusual peripherals, dependency on ports, existence and competition of FreeBSD etc. I love OpenBSD's code philosophy (they were the first to introduce a lot of security techniques[1]) and the programs they produce, OpenSSH is a lifesaver, and I use doas for its low footprint on my Linux machine. Still, they have a convulated install process, dubious hardware and software compatibility that is better solved in the Linux world today.

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

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