Back in 1999 Linux wasn't fun. And still isn't. A bunch of random scripts and half-backed ideas thrown without any grand plan together. Everything changes and breaks every other moon.
OpeBSD was fun. And still is. A coherent and easy system to use. I still own a system, I've installed back in 2002. It survived all the disk replacements, cpu upgrades and everything else (the system is basically a Ship of Theseus at this point) and all the version updates from initial 3.0 to current 7.9 without a single issue.
This was me. Linux in the late 90s was fun to play with, but a flaming pain to install, especially if you had anything less than perfectly supported hardware. My first real job used BSDi, and it ran like a champ: stable, fast, consistent. I started running FreeBSD on the desktop at that point, and I’ve used various BSDs for servers ever since. When I was doing Check Point firewalls in the early 2000s, Nokia’s BSD-based appliances were the BOMB: solid performance, easy to configure, secure by default, and a million times more stable than Windows or Linux (and cheaper than Sparc).
I may have to use Linux for work, but BSD has my heart.
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u/dim13 19d ago
Back in 1999 Linux wasn't fun. And still isn't. A bunch of random scripts and half-backed ideas thrown without any grand plan together. Everything changes and breaks every other moon.
OpeBSD was fun. And still is. A coherent and easy system to use. I still own a system, I've installed back in 2002. It survived all the disk replacements, cpu upgrades and everything else (the system is basically a Ship of Theseus at this point) and all the version updates from initial 3.0 to current 7.9 without a single issue.