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CentOS vs OpenBSD: What are the differences?
Developers describe CentOS as "The Community ENTerprise Operating System". The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code. On the other hand, OpenBSD is detailed as "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!". It is a free and secure UNIX-like operating system that emphasizes portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security & integrated cryptography.
CentOS and OpenBSD can be primarily classified as "Operating Systems" tools.
Global familiarity, free, widely used, and as a debian distro feels more comfortable when rapidly switching between local macOS and remote command lines.
CentOS does boast quite a few security/stability improvements, however as a RHEL-based distro, differs quite significantly in the command line and suffers from slightly less frequent package updates. (Could be a good or bad thing depending on your use-case and if it is public facing)
Pros of CentOS
- Stable15
- Reliable8
- Free to use8
- Has epel packages5
- Good support5
- Great Community4
- I've moved from gentoo to centos2
- 好用1
Pros of OpenBSD
- Is best1
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Cons of CentOS
- Yum is a horrible package manager1
Cons of OpenBSD
- Imortal0
