Deployed my first client workload on OpenBSD... it won't be the last

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Hello mailing list readers, =20

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I recently deployed my first customer workload running on OpenBSD, and =
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I couldn't be happier. =20

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I'm coming from a Linux background, but have spent many years "reading"=
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about BSD (mainly OpenBSD (since 6.5), as it aligns with my penchant fo=
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security and privacy). I began self-hosting a home lab running OpenBSD =
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7.5, and just deployed 7.8 for a customer. =20

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Once I had configured hostname.if(5), pf(4), login.conf(5), and =20

adduser.conf(5) successfully, a rush of dopamine hit me and I knew I =20

couldn't go back to deploying Linux anytime soon. =20

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Documentation (via manpages) was the greatest tool in getting over any =
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bumps along the way. Everything is so compactly and exhaustively =20

detailed that I rarely had to web search for solving issues. =20

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Thank you to all OpenBSD developers, hackers, bloggers, and conference =
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presenters who have helped me get this far. =20

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Cheers


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