(23-05-2022, 08:52 AM)seninha Wrote: Then I gave OpenBSD a chance. I continued studying the code, and spotted a few more small bugs. One may think that discovering bugs (even being small bugs) in an OS is a red flag to avoid it. But in my case, it made me more interested in the system and to explore it. And for the first time I feel myself part of the development of a FOSS project.

It's rare to find somebody getting genuinely interested in a F/OSS project with the purpose of learning, and choosing it out of real understanding and sincere appreciation. This comment was a lovely read.

Speaking for myself, my choice for an operating system is, likewise, mainly based on curiosity, discovery, and eagerness to learn, its community (friendliness, diversity, inclusiveness, ease at getting in contact with the staff and eventually contributing) . Also, I have a weak spot for lightweight, oldschool/vintage computing, modularity, scriptability, portabilty, anykernels, filesystems (ZFS mainly), virtualization.

I chose NetBSD because somehow it manages to meet all these requirements to an acceptable degree, without getting in the way. I loved what I discovered using the most niche of BSDs and I decided to stay.