30 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenBSD first-hand: 10 endorse it, 2 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“As an OpenBSD lover and frequent user I will tell you it does not support but a significant fraction of the hardware Linux does”
mixed · personal · icepush · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been noodling around with OpenBSD and realized that you could make the image small enough to boot from floppy”
endorse · production · kjellsbells · 2022-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Imo OpenBSD on laptop, FreeBSD on server/desktop. But they're both great and I don't think you'd regret either one”
endorse · personal · bromonkey · 2020-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was pushed away by all the new networking infrastructure I had to learn from scratch”
regret · personal · nikisweeting · 2020-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I bought it specifically for OpenBSD and it works great. ... These days I mostly just run current snapshots”
endorse · personal · kelp · 2020-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I became a BSD user after just trying OpenBSD out of curiosity on my headless server after years of running Linux. The experience was so damn good.”
endorse · personal · clarry · 2020-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“at Mailhardener we run a couple OpenBSD instances, mostly because we really like OpenSMTPd. I still wouldn't recommend OpenBSD though”
mixed · production · LeonM · 2019-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm back to Linux and OpenBSD workstations and phasing Macs out again.”
endorse · personal · busterarm · 2019-01-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“openbsd (it hosts and smtp, and web server public on the internet)... hope to change completely to openbsd in a couple of months.”
endorse · production · pecg · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This eventually rolled onto OpenBSD because TBH it just works (to a point) and everything is easy to find.”
mixed · personal · batou · 2015-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We still have a few Open and Free BSD servers running, as they are basically rock solid”
endorse · production · like_do_i_care · 2014-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have built a firewall from an old slow 1U Sun Netra "server" with OpenBSD/spark64 and it is still in production after almost 7 years?”
endorse · production · 7 yr · dschiptsov · 2012-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use cisco, juniper and openbsd, this caused exactly zero problems.”
endorse · production · papsosouid · 2012-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“running a key company server on OpenBSD for awhile in the late 90s / early 2000s - security was compelling”
regret · production · acdha · 2012-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use OpenBSD a lot where I work - its firewall, and routing configurations are rock solid.”
endorse · production · ghshephard · 2010-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the same dotfiles git repo for 16 years across Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.”
neutral · personal · jitl · 2024-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it turned out to be running a very old version of OpenBSD.”
neutral · production · doublepg23 · 2024-08-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the fleet consists of freebsd rhel7 xnu win10 openbsd netbsd pi silicon”
neutral · production · jart · 2023-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Not every day you can play with OpenBSD in prod - usually it's just on my oddball computers.”
neutral · production · doublepg23 · 2023-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I inherited some 5.x OpenBSD systems at my current job and I'm really curious how I'd go about upgrading to 7.4”
neutral · production · doublepg23 · 2023-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used lots of code from Musl, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD.”
neutral · personal · jart · 2021-02-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have disabled Hyper Threading(HT) on all public facing servers(running OpenBSD).”
neutral · production · reacharavindh · 2018-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using both since 1998, so I can go either way.”
neutral · production · 19 yr · secret_island · 2017-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“managing the whole LAMP (well OpenBSD-Nginx-MP) thing behind it and whatnot”
neutral · personal · alxlaz · 2017-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In a previous job we used to deploy OpenBSD firewalls to provide site-to-site VPNs.”
neutral · production · kbenson · 2017-02-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My firewalls have been OpenBSD for quite some time.”
neutral · personal · insaneirish · 2013-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We already moved to Nginx on OpenBSD before 5.2.”
neutral · production · eksith · 2013-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Until 2010, I ran a forum on SQLite with 600 users/day + around 1000 posts/day on a single OpenBSD machine”
neutral · production · eksith · 2013-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OpenBSD or FreeBSD or Linux as my primary desktop OS since about 1996.. As of last week, all my laptop/desktop usage is now Mac OS.”
neutral · personal · 15 yr · ishbits · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I run OpenBSD, and all the base packages are statically linked.”
neutral · personal · sedachv · 2011-05-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?