What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?

Re:What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux? by snazz on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @07:46AM (#20029122)

Any cloud VPS service that provides ISO upload will allow you to use OpenBSD. Vultr has OpenBSD 6.4 and 6.5 images pre-configured that you can get installed on a VPS (I’m using a $3.50/mo one).

For an even better experience, try it on an old ThinkPad following this guide [0]. You might like how suspend/resume just works, how your brightness and volume hotkeys just work, how the documentation is awesome, and how all the software you need is just one pkg_add away. I’d say that, compared to Linux on the desktop, OpenBSD can be a much more cohesive experience without a desktop environment installed and without endless configuration for basic features.

[0]: https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/openbsd-on-a-laptop/

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Re:What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux? by pnutjam on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:15AM (#20030207)

If you stick to a tried and true linux release, like OpenSuse, you can have this in Linux. I get excellent hardware support, zypper package management, and an excellent KDE environment.

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Re:What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux? by snazz on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @01:15PM (#20032138)

You can certainly get the it-just-works with a big fat desktop environment like KDE, but if you don’t want that (I personally don’t like it that way), OpenBSD with a plain window manager Just Works better than the equivalent with Linux.

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Re:What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux? by pnutjam on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:29PM (#20032914)

Xfce always works fine for me as well. OpenSUSE has yast for some configuration, it works identically via gui or ncurses.

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Re:What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux? by fredsir on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @08:17AM (#20029286)

Thanks, I'll check it out!

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