Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)
by LeonM on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:55AM
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Actually, my first UNIX experience was OpenBSD. I must have been around 14 years old or so when I ran an OpenBSD server at home, and use it as a NAT router with PF.
Whenever I couldn't figure something out I'd just read the manpage and go from there. Needless to say I also did a lot of trial and error, but that was mostly due to my own lack of knowledge at the time.
Fast forward to 2019, and at Mailhardener we run a couple OpenBSD instances, mostly because we really like OpenSMTPd. We also run Debian based servers for convenience reasons.
I still wouldn't recommend OpenBSD though, for almost all situations it would make more sense to run a Linux based OS. Whether it being on the desktop or on a server.
Whenever I couldn't figure something out I'd just read the manpage and go from there. Needless to say I also did a lot of trial and error, but that was mostly due to my own lack of knowledge at the time.
Fast forward to 2019, and at Mailhardener we run a couple OpenBSD instances, mostly because we really like OpenSMTPd. We also run Debian based servers for convenience reasons.
I still wouldn't recommend OpenBSD though, for almost all situations it would make more sense to run a Linux based OS. Whether it being on the desktop or on a server.