Hello, all! In our latest exchange, on 16 Nov. 2021 at 08:00 [JST], I received this from Nicolas Lagrand <nicolas.legrand@bulac.fr>: It’s been there for a long time :) https://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html but
last time I checked the multicore features are not very well advanced.
It’s been a long time since I’ve last used OpenBSD, but it remains one of my favorite systems ever: it’s very neat, the base is excellent. It’s great for network applications. You can also have a very decent desktop with it. The package system is really great (all written in Perl by Marc Espie), one of the best I’ve used, the only one that never betrayed me.
That said, it's slower, you have less possibilities, less hardware working. From time to time they decide to fork or rewrite some big softwares, sometimes it’s great (like PF, OpenSMTPd). Sometimes it feels exaggerated. The community is also very elitist and... well, let’s say “direct”.
If you like clean, well documented systems with great defaults, OpenBSD is worth a try.
Now I wouldn’t try Koha on it, because it’s a no brainer to install it on Linux. Just thinking about all the Perl dependencies to port makes me dizzy :D.
We would not seriously consider any of the open BSD systems since Koha is written to Debian and Ubuntu. We have heard good things about OpenBSD. There's no sense in tempting fate, so to speak, especially if there isn't a full-time IT staff to dedicate so much time to it. But we saw it and then found a Koha support page for OpenBSD, albeit Koha 3, I think. It's just curiosity on our part. Thanks for your comments. -- 気を付けて。 /ki wo tukete/ = Take care. -- Charles. Charles Kelley, MLS PSC 704 Box 1029 APO AP 96338 Charles Kelley Tsukimino 1-Chome 5-2 Tsukimino Gaadenia #210 Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken 〒242-0002 JAPAN +1-301-741-7122 [US cell] +81-80-4356-2178 [JPN cell] mnogojazyk@aol.com [h] cmkelleymls@gmail.com [p] linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmkelleymls> Meeting Your Information Needs. Virtually.