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		throwaway270925 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why use OpenBSD? It's gotten a lot faster with 7.6 (lots of work on the TCP stack iirc). We saw huge improvements in throughput after updating. The new 7.8 release should bring some more performance, haven't tested it yet though.

SoftTalker 5 months ago [–]

Yes, they've been working on unlocking more and more performance over the 7.x series of releases if not longer.

Remember the BSDs date from an era when you only had one core in the CPU.

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