Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?

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Thom Holwerda Jul 30, 2025 · 1 min read
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Last week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD.

↫ Joel Carnat

Here’s my short pitch as to why you should use OpenBSD: it’s the closest you’ll get to a traditional, classic UNIX, while still using a modern and maintained operating system. OpenBSD just makes sense, and every time I run into some issue or I want to know how something in OpenBSD works, the answers always make me go “well that makes sense”.

That’s rare in modern computing, and we need to cherish it.