I'm not sure what you mean by social but Plan 9 development from Bell is pretty
slow/opaque and the rest of the community scattered and headless. I don't care
for Inferno and Rob Pike unfortunately took a job at Google ("why Rob,
why??":-). Plan 9's file paradigm is great but their 3-button mouse UI is crap.
Security-wise Plan 9 doesn't have any creds, good or bad, but hardware support
without source review is worthless, i.e. "you don't know where that code has
been". OpenBSD's proactive about security and privacy (f.ex autoconfigprivacy
to mask your MAC on ipv6 sockets), pf is unmatched, etc.
The only thing I miss is an X-less framebuffer in OpenBSD even it'd support
just a console and text editor. IMHO X has to die, it's a huge pile of crap.
-- p
>Hi,
>
>Peter Laufenberg wrote on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 07:51:13AM MST:
>> Actually it's this kind of slander that brought me to OpenBSD. While looking
>> for an OS that didn't embrace "Trusted Computing", I came across Theo's
>> wikipedia entry which pounded on him so extensively that it raised a flag.
>> Extra points for the stab from Linus
>> "no-lube-needed/I-can't-feel-a-thing-by-now". Without the slander I probably
>> would have stuck with Plan 9.
>I have been using OpenBSD exclusively for the last 6 months and I really do
>prefer it (both technically and socially) to Linux (which I had used for the
>past 15 years) and FreeBSD (which I used to administer at work). I only
>started learning about Plan 9 over the past few months and I really like what
>I see so far. The one thing that is keeping me from trying to make more use of
>it is the lack of drivers for some of my hardware. I am curious about what led
>you to go from Plan 9 to OpenBSD. Were they technical in nature or social, or
>a little of both?
>
>Thanks,
>
>David
