Redpill me on OpenBSD. Can I use it as my primary OS?

Redpill me on OpenBSD. Can I use it as my primary OS?

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its shit

literally the worst OS ever made

FBI backdoored, do not touch.

the mascot looks just like the average user

Its good if you enjoy pain

You can really only use it if you have an older Thinkpad or an old Macbook. It does work on servers too but it's really not meant for desktop use. Also don't listen to the Lincucks here, there are not and never were backdoors. This is a rumor based completely on some email thread form the early 2000's. There are several government agencies that use OpenBSD internally because of the higher security.

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Hoesntly I want to use it just because FreeBSDs mascot is gay

Sure, but you're better off using FreeBSD for compatibility and performance.

>(DOT)
Please end your miserable existence.

It has a very limited software and drivers selection. For desktop usage, you'll be better served with FreeBSD.

Dragonfly or go home

It's great given it has the software you need

I hear it's among the most secure OSes out there, if you can actually get it running encrypted, how true is this?

free what?

I use OpenBSD on a old tower and on a Dell laptop. It works great if you're not retarded. It has basic office features, but it shows its power for server use, with softraid, pf etc...

Damn. Virtual kernel support looks dope. I might have to try it out. Know if it behaves under xen, or should I go with throwing it on a spare drive?

>NTFS disks are read-only
>security model does not fit desktop that much (running a lot of untrusted software)
>either run -release with older packages, or -current but have to reboot to update base system
>less drivers, some laptops might not have wifi
>no bluetooth support
>no Pandoc port
>weaker VM support - Qemu does not have hardware acceleration and VMM does not handle systemd Linux distros
>forget proprietary graphic drivers
I was surprised how many things worked out of the box on laptop. All the volume keys, brightness, power button, closing lid, suspend and hibernate, settings this on barebone Linux is hell and on desktop distros it never worked for me. If you don't mind mentioned issues, it's solid main OS, but there really isn't any advantage for it as desktop system.

>openbsd server
Constantly breaks something so the answer is no.

>NTFS disks are read-only
openbsd supports FUSE and ntfs-3g

BSD. It's short for "bastard", a word you'll use to describe your BSD operating system every time a driver breaks (i.e. very frequently).

you can but why would you want to?
It's Linux from 10 years ago without it's best part (GPL License).

[B]roken [S]oftware [D]issapointment

>62261676
Depends on your use case. As a desktop it's a long shot.
As a router/server OS it's great.

thanks for ntfs-3g tip, didn't know about that

Any specific reason to use NTFS?

just few occasional winfags who did not formatted their external hard drives to fat. Not a big deal but it's awkward having to boot liveusb just for this.

Yes, but you're gonna be compiling most of your software from source, by yourself. And I mean real compiling from source, not Gentoo "let me traverse the USEflags menu and feel elite" compiling from source, but manually installing dependencies, setting environment vars, debugging make/configure/install files, etc.

It's a pain in the ass, but the distro is top notch.

Do you have any idea if they are going to do something about the Bluetooth support?

Never, they dropped bluetooth support deliberately in 2014.

Who use Bluetooth in 2017?

Me. Believe me or not but it's pretty useful to share little file when there is no internet connection available, for a wireless thetering or to connect to an external audio device

>There are several government agencies that use OpenBSD internally because of the higher security.
yeah right

BSD. It's short for "beast" because the developers are homosexuals who worship satan

I was trolling user.

>Never, they dropped bluetooth support deliberately in 2014.
Why?

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[1] marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=140511572108715&w=2

HA

>Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia
Established in 1986 and based in Sydney, HREOC is an independent statutory organisation which administers federal laws relating to alleged human rights breaches and discrimination. The Commission is also responsible for human rights education and the investigation and conciliation of discrimination and human rights complaints. OpenBSD is being utilised to offer various network services.
>Ministerio de Obras Públicas del Gobierno de Chile
The Public Construction Ministry of the Republic of Chile runs a national WAN and use OpenBSD for their firewalls and link loadbalancers, based on pf. They have been using OpenBSD since the year 2001, and selected the OS so they could sleep well at night without fear of being hacked.
>Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo, Bogota, Colombia
In this government agency, OpenBSD is essential: perimeter firewalls, network intrusion systems, bandwidth managers and a mail filter gateway that uses spamd and some other OpenBSD tools keep their network secure.
>Sonora State Electoral Council, México
This government agency uses OpenBSD to protect its network and for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD-based VPN provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.

Also PasientSky, network infrastructure for healthcare clinics in Norway.