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Re:OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon by anotherhue on Monday June 17, 2024 @02:30AM (#40702856)
I have only read about it but my takeaway was that it was like an opinionated sibling technology rather than a successor one.

I don't know what a successor would look like, I worry that it would have to wrangle with 40 years of software compilation techniques.

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Re:OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon by speed_spread on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:58AM (#40704316)
I would start with Gentoo, which has recipes to build stuff from scratch for just about everything.
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Re:OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon by anotherhue on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:41AM (#40705015)
I came from fbsd ports so agreed but that's what I'm saying, that's more thsn 20 year old tech and we should be able to improve.
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