For the record, I just paid (too little too late) a license for Reddit Is Fun (RIF).

If Reddit goes through with their plan, I will delete RIF from my phone and never go on Reddit again, which is probably just as well, since it is a huge waste of time.

They [OpenBSD] have a track record. A lot of people who work in computer security look up to them.

Unlike you, random /. user named "polotheclown".

And you think the NSA is interested in helping YOU secure YOUR Windows installation?

Oh, you swet summer child...

I play a dangerous hacker on TV, but that's about it.

In production, pretty much anything that has to run reliably and without a hitch for years.

Firewalls, routers, DNS server, Email server, all of these running CARP to cluster these functions and prevent service interruption. SSH boxes as well

On OpenBSD, you don't have 'apt', you have 'pkg_add' for applications (pkg_add -i vim to install vim, for instance) 'syspatch' to apply security patches and 'sysupgrade' to upgrade from one version to the next. I have just used sysupgrade to upgrade machines from 7.2 to 7.3 - super smooth.

Everything that you do with OpenBSD, you can do with Linux, including having a hardened security installation - it just comes 'out of the box' with all the security bells and whistles, and the whole system is of a very high quality, very well put together, very well documented. Try it, you may like it.

Same here - 1st OpenBSD machine updated from 7.2 to 7.3, without a hitch and without any issue. Beautiful OS, through and through, way more reliable than any Linux out there.

This. 1000 times this. Use OpenSSH? You are using something that is part of a great OS, named OpenBSD.

Yeah, sure, and you are a security expert.

Let me put it this way: if you take a look at some mailing lists like OSS, where people discuss things they actually know, you will note OpenBSD is one of the OS they go back to constantly.

And the refrain is: "Oh yeah, OpenBSD disabled this, or corrected this, or implemented this 3 years ago".

Maybe you don't like OpenBSD programmers or BDFL for their abrasive personalities, but they are way ahead of Linux in many ways.

I am sure you a great security expert, just like 99% of people on /.

Less than 1% of Linux users? Care to back that assertion with solid numbers?

Slackware is still a very popular distribution, and I know a few companies use it for stable infrastructure services (DNS, Proxy/Reverse proxies, Firewalls, etc). It is a very stable and regularly updated distributions.

Slackware has had an online shop for the longest time.

It seems, based on previous posts by Patrick Volkerding, that the people who were in charge of running this shop have been ripping him off for years.

The situation finally came to a head when Pat V broke all contacts with them and asked the community for support. Having a Patreon page is just one more step in this direction.

If you'd like to contribute, Patrick Volkerding PayPal page is: https://www.paypal.com/paypalm...

I use Slackware, and I support Slackware financially, through PayPal and probably through Patreon in the future.

Do you?

Contrary to what you seem to think, a lot of people who use Slackware like it enough to support it. This is a community that values Patrick Volkerding's work.