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One thing that is glossed over is how Linux won to OpenBSD. I remember back in the 90's, web hosting providers boasted they used OpenBSD instead of Linux for security.

> One thing that is glossed over is how Linux won to OpenBSD.

Isn’t https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_In.... the answer?

Linux was completely safe, BSDs were a risk, the choice was easy.

USL / AT&T basically kneecapped the bsds.

Slackware comes to mind.

It would be nice if Slackware released at least as often as Debian stable though

This is not as important as one might think, as long as updates keep flowing in (which they do). For 'ports,' there is sbopkg which keeps the software that is not included in the OS install up to date. Then there is pkgs.org and pkgsrc.org. And in a rare case if I need the bleeding edge version of something and is not available as a package from anywhere I can always install it by hand - Slackware is highly tolerant towards software that does not come in the form of a package.

Absolutely agree

It's in RC now. My computer is waiting.

I am completely in agreement with this comment.