samoright

Hello HN community,

I have been a long time user of Linux system (Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu). I have also worked on Windows and Mac.

While programming I realized that every new programming language I learnt introduced me to new ways of doing things that I think has helped me mature as a programmer.

I am looking for a similar experience with operating systems. What operating do you suggest that would help me to explore something new and interesting?

A couple of constraints:

* Should not be another Linux distribution

* Should not be too esoteric or obscure operating system. I know this is subjective. If this filters out all operating systems you might have suggested, then please suggest the least esoteric or the least obscure one.

* Good documentation or clean source code is a plus because it would help me to study and learn it more effectively

Which BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc.) do you use and why do you use it? I am hoping for a discussion around the operating system's source code quality, documentation, and community around these BSDs in this thread.