Why a desktop installation of OpenBSD?
It’s a legitimate question. According to Distrowatch, among the three main BSD projects (they don’t like to be called “distros”), FreeBSD is way out in front — and is the base for PC-BSD and DesktopBSD — followed by OpenBSD and NetBSD. And even though there are two desktop-focused versions of FreeBSD, and it’s possible to turn all three of the major BSD projects into a desktop-worthy system, the question remains: Why not just stick with Linux, with its usually superior hardware detection, vastly larger community of users (who in theory and often in practice can provide all the help you need to get a system up and running) and much larger choice of distributions? For one thing, Linux isn’t alone on the desktop, nor should it be. Apple has a hugely popular desktop operating system based in part on code from BSD. And another operating system derived from Unix — OpenSolaris — is also inching onto the desktop with its Indiana project. I think the competition is enormously healthy for fr
