How viable is OpenBSD for a server -- not a firewall or an email server, but a Web application server that must run Perl, Python and Java code? Is compatibility ever a problem compared to FreeBSD? I want to migrate away from FreeBSD, but don't want to go full GNU. Do you have to upgrade to a new release every six months or is there leeway?
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Blake Jackson
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Eli Thomas
I want to fuck that fish.
Henry Thomas
It is male and not even that anthropomorphic; it's just cute. You are not supposed to want to fuck just cute.
Owen Clark
I'm going to fuck that fish.
Brayden Carter
I knew it was you, Sup Forums. I knew it.
Julian Rivera
You don't have to upgrade to a new release, but why would you not want to? In any case, they support the current release and previous release, which means you can withhold an update for six whole months.
I use OpenBSD as a webserver, but I'm not running Python or Java. Just try it out. If it works on FreeBSD it'll probably work on OpenBSD.
John Allen
>I use OpenBSD as a webserver
Apache?
Leo Morgan
No, I use the httpd that comes with OpenBSD.
man.openbsd.org
Apache is in the package system, though.
Brayden Johnson
Not him but I use the built-in httpd (bsd.plumbing) or nginx if I need more features. You can use apache though.
Isaiah Peterson
>java
Hudson Lee
OpenBSD is perfect for a server.
You don't have to upgrade, but you stop getting binary security fixes after two releases. Generally upgrading is painless because they never do big bang releases; they do incremental releases, every 6 months.
Benjamin White
i think that with every release, the previous one is supported for a few more months but don't quote me on that
Isaac Perez
Hey, it's not like I have a choice.
Dominic Martin
>he didn't preorder and get the comfy blowfish sticker
David Baker
Did you?
Grayson Wright
I'd say its good enough for any Sup Forums deployment
Wyatt Ward
yup. it's on my old netbook
Jack King
Post proof.
Luke Adams
had to find this shit
Luke King
Nice, user. Did you study OS-level security?
Jayden Bell
not really too much reverse engineering or anything I'd consider difficult. hardening and pen testing yes, and it got boring.
Jack Ortiz
after defcon 20 (or 21?) they had like ai/automated ctf/attack defense, I was basically like "not fun"
Matthew Davis
yea it was this. pretty nuts. defcon.org
Jose Adams
cactus
Bentley King
poor brad
Dominic Perry
it's the most comfy server OS out there OP. Everything you need right out of the box:
Nolan Jackson
SQLite is God's gift to man and httpd is great, but webdev is heavy on hashmaps and string manipulation. Doing it in C, which lacks a real string type and generic data structures, is just dumb. It's unsafe, unproductive and scripting languages will beat you in performance if you use null-terminated strings for templates. You may want to try it once to see why Perl got so big in the '90s, though.
>It's a hipster-free
No. It is very hipster. httpd speaks FastCGI. Use it.
Ayden Phillips
>httpd speaks FastCGI. Use it.
no, please don't. it's 20 fucking 18. if your shitty language isn't self hosting, it's shit, like your app.
Jack Rivera
Either way is fine. Just don't write it in C.
Andrew Adams
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