Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by TimSchumann on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:51PM
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Just curious, but does anyone know a business using OpenBSD in production other than the Pushover App?
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Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by LeoPanthera on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:20PM
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Virtually everyone uses bits of OpenBSD. Android uses a lot of its C standard library, LLVM uses its regular expression library, and Windows 10 uses OpenSSH with LibreSSL.
Armorlogic, Calyptix Security, GeNUA, RTMX, and .vantronix make network appliances based on the complete OS.
Don't forget tmux, cwm, openbgpd, and openntp. The OpenBSD guys consistently make very high quality tools.
cwm is a diamond in the rough for sure. Doesn't look like much but it's so easy to configure and use.
I absolutely love cwm. Best floating window manager, hands down.
Especially OpenSSH...
"OpenBSD Innovations": https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
I used OpenBSD in production at my previous job (an ISP), in a few different roles. Lots of ISPs use OpenBSD for various purposes.
HSMs from nCipher used to run on top of (a slightly modified, IIRC) OpenBSD. Just as JunOS (the OS on (some) Juniper network devices) runs on FreeBSD, I'm sure there are many other commercial products built on OpenBSD as well -- we just don't hear about them very much.
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Related (from the same author as this submission): "Why OpenBSD?" [0].
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An acquaintance is currently building the tech part of his and some friends' start-up, entirely on OpenBSD - PHP-based web front end, back end, Postgres-based database, mail server etc.
Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by mgreenleaf on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:48AM
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Not sure if this counts, but I use it in production in yakdocs.com and yak-mu.com. I love how easy it is to maintain and I love the pf firewall. Hetzner has images for OpenBSD on their cloud service and you can use a custom image on the dedicated servers.
Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by brobdingnagians on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:00AM
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Vultr also has support for OpenBSD
Works well too. We've moved a lot of boxes from local to them. I do wish their console supported cut and paste on a Mac.
Netflix uses freeBSD does that count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_bKvXkoC4