server distros

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:51:29AM -0500, Peter King wrote:
> For a server? OpenBSD. Seriously secure, lovely network stack, very
> well-maintained upgrades, in widespread use.

Secure yes
Nice network stack, yes
Well maintained, well reasonably
Widespread use, probably not that much anymore

Of course I personally would add to that (and I have very much used it):

Painful user space
Painful package management
Seriously outdated hardware support.

Of course I do tend to expect perfection, and never accept "that's how
we have always done it" as a reason to continue to do anything.

Too bad Debian only has a freebsd and netbsd version, not openbsd,
otherwise you could at least fix two of the three problems.

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Len Sorensen
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