In December 1994, Theo de Raadt, a founding member of the NetBSD project, was asked to resign from the NetBSD core team over disagreements and conflicts with the other members of the NetBSD team. In October … See more

It is hard to determine how widely OpenBSD is used, because the developers do not publish or collect usage statistics.
In September 2005, the BSD Certification Group surveyed 4330 individual BSD users, showing that … See more

Shortly after OpenBSD was created, De Raadt was contacted by a local security software company named Secure Networks (later acquired by McAfee). They were developing a See more

Many open source projects started as components of OpenBSD, including:
• bioctl, a generic RAID management interface similar to ifconfig
• CARP, a free alternative to Cisco's patented HSRP/VRRP redundancy protocols See more

Network appliances
OpenBSD features a robust TCP/IP networking stack, and can be used as a router or wireless access point. OpenBSD's security enhancements, built-in cryptography, and packet filter make it suitable for security … See more

Supported platforms and devices are listed in the OpenBSD Supported Platforms Notes. Other configurations may also work, but simply have not been tested or documented yet. Rough automatically extracted lists of supported device ids are available in a third … See more

OpenBSD includes a number of third-party components, many with OpenBSD-specific patches, such as X.Org, Clang (the default compiler on several architectures), GCC, Perl, NSD, Unbound, ncurses, GNU binutils, GDB, and AWK. See more