Thread by @romanzolotarev

#OpenBSD is great for web development. It's fast, consistent, reliable, well documented. Works great on hardware with limited resources.

disk usage:
- server (base, no packages installed) 1GB
- desktop (200 packages) 5GB

memory usage:
- server 200-400MB
- desktop 2-4GB

Memory: 75M/533M
xenodm + cwm + xterm + httpd

Right after reboot.

With all my web dev environment running:

... + firefox + tmux + vi

Memory: 634M/1306M

This setup has 16G of RAM and that's four times more than I ever needed on #OpenBSD.

5GB on disk

31 packages installed
(182 packages total with dependences)

OR

4GB on disk
30 packages (153 total)
without libreoffice

On #OpenBSD I install those 153 packages with a single command in 70 seconds!

# pkg_add -l pkgs

Yes, I uninstalled all packages first:

# pkg_delete -X

# time pkg_add -xl pkgs
1m09.80s

# du -hs /usr
3.9GB /usr

# time pkg_delete -xX
0m22.72s

# du -hs /usr
2.3GB /usr

Tried that few times.
Persistent results (plus minus 2 seconds).