rhabarba

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into

I noticed that my link collector nears perfection (for my use case) - not much stuff required to be done lately. Which is a good thing.

“Low power consumption” in absolute numbers is not quite the same thing as “energy efficiency” for a server. Desktop CPUs are more useful for servers and - depending on the architecture - cheaper per W.

Yes, especially since they don’t have a display.

A laptop is a waste for servers. Too much energy consumption in my opinion.

Let’s save yourself some time. https://github.com/toolleeo/awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv

Also, it’s like Wordpress, growing new slow features you’ll never need with each new release.

I replaced nextCloud’s file sharing with Syncthing just recently, as I found myself only synchronising between two computers (one desktop, one smartphone) anyway. :-)

I don’t think there is a Python 2 version for retro equipment (DOS?). ;-)

Firefox isn’t that great for FTP either. Gopher still exists :-) and I’d love to use it even more.

Can we have Gopher support?

I’m still trying to find a decently low-spec machine to run WfW 3.11 on, so, as you mentioned retro gaming, that might be an alternative.

That’s already very inappropriate for non-technical users.

There is no operating system in existence that provides every single software you could imagine as a precompiled package for your platform right out of the box.

Also not appropriate.

You do have a point here. I, personally, don’t have a Bluetooth device at home, so YMMV, I guess.

Is it difficult to break

Well, it won’t forbid you rm -rf /. But generally, it is very reliable.

Is it easy to install software?

Yes, and there is quite a huge selection available from the official repositories (and you can compile most software “missing” there yourself).

Does it include support for a variety of hardware OOTB?

It depends on the hardware, but generally speaking, OpenBSD supports a nice amount of platforms and tries to keep “old” hardware alive as long as possible (for example, VAX support was dropped in 2016, which was quite some time after they were en vogue). What isn’t supported, however, is Bluetooth which was removed in OpenBSD 5.6 unless you use a dongle.

It is.

The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative

OpenBSD exists.

That said, this article remains true.

Not as long as possible replacements aren’t platform-independent.