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OpenBSD 6.1 has been released. The short version points out the addition of syspatch (which should make upgrading easier one of these years). The long version notes, among other things, support for ARM64, which includes, if you're a thrill-seeker, the ability to run OBSD on a Raspberry Pi 3 which seems relatively cool. Or at least cheap.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13 2017, @06:17PM (3 children)
So I'd like to switch to a BSD, Linux is being not-so-covertly undermined. However, which BSD to choose?
Does anyone have a good breakdown?
(Score: 5, Informative) by engblom on Thursday April 13 2017, @06:47PM (1 child)
OpenBSD is the most stable out of all the BSD. Every commit has to be accepted by someone else. The progress is slower because of the development process, but the product is stable and very secure. Personally I find this one to be the easiest to maintain and upgrade of all BSD.
FreeBSD is the "Linux" of BSD. It got the fastest development and because of this, some stability problems are not completely uncommon. If you want to use ZFS, FreeBSD does support it out of box.
NetBSD was once the OS for all hardware, including toasters. Now they seem to lag behind as Linux even supports more platforms. They got decent stability but their development process seem to make the progress to stall.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Dr Spin on Thursday April 13 2017, @08:00PM
I believe FreeBSD outperforms OpenBSD by a considerable margin, and works on a lot more hardware, but, as you say OpenBSD is more stable and more secure. Which are my priorities.
OpenBSD also runs on the Sun/Oracle T series, which is big iron, and makes up for speed limitations by having more threads (although its not great for some applications).
Big iron is not the way to go if you want a small, quiet project. Big block Chevvies are not great for everything either.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13 2017, @10:42PM
OpenBSD is the most solid production OS publicly available.
FreeBSD has a lot of packages available, and is still BSD.
NetBSD is between OpenBSD and FreeBSD for stability and package options, and works on more HW than either of the others.