OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
BSD has become obsolete, the term "BSD" is now commonly used for its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD....
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Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all...
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Ports collection (redirect from OpenBSD ports)
sites with a listing of OpenBSD ports and packages: openports.pl OpenPorts.se[usurped], originally announced as ports.openbsd.nu in 2006, was a custom-written...
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game consoles. The other current BSD systems (OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD) also contain a large amount of FreeBSD code, and vice-versa.[citation...
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functionally equivalent, and endorsed by the OpenBSD project as a license template for new contributions. The BSD 0-clause license goes further than the 2-clause...
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"atu-license". BSD Cross Reference, OpenBSD. "Manual Pages: ipw". Openbsd.org. 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2012-12-09. "Manual Pages: iwi". Openbsd.org. 2012-09-17...
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Portage (software) (redirect from Gentoo/OpenBSD)
an incomplete state. Gentoo/OpenBSD was a Gentoo/*BSD subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the OpenBSD operating system. It was originally...
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For Developers. "OpenSSH 8.1 Release Notes". OpenSSH. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2024. "OpenBSD manual pages: SSH". openbsd.org. 3 July 2014...
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early 2000s[update], there are four major BSD operating systems–FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD, and an increasing number of other OSs forked...
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OpenBSD, from a forked version of NetBSD 1.0 near the end of 1995. In 1998, NetBSD 1.3 introduced the pkgsrc packages collection. Until 2004, NetBSD 1...
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ISC license (category Free and open-source software licenses)
"Copyright Policy". OpenBSD. Retrieved 6 June 2016. de Raadt, Theo (21 March 2008). "Re: BSD Documentation License?". openbsd-misc (Mailing list). Retrieved...
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Address space layout randomization (section OpenBSD)
features implemented as part of OpenBSD's mmap system call, and to detect use-after-free bugs. Released in 2013, OpenBSD 5.3 was the first mainstream operating...
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versions of OpenBSD (2.3 and 2.4) used a BSD Daemon with a halo, and briefly used a daemon police officer for version 2.5. Then, however, OpenBSD switched...
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doas (“dedicated openbsd application subexecutor”) is a program to execute commands as another user. The system administrator can configure it to give...
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C standard library (redirect from BSD libc)
175–178. "Super User's BSD Cross Reference: /OpenBSD/lib/libc/string/strlcat.c". bxr.su. "Super User's BSD Cross Reference: /OpenBSD/lib/libc/string/strlcpy...
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The OpenBSD Journal is an online newspaper dedicated to coverage of OpenBSD software and related events. The OpenBSD Journal is widely recognized as a...
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Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems FreeBSD Darwin (operating system) DesktopBSD MidnightBSD TrueOS NetBSD OpenBSD "GhostBSD is switching...
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Mode setting (section OpenBSD)
3.15 DRM/KMS code. OpenBSD has kernel-based mode setting support for Intel and Radeon GPUs. Starting with version 5.4 of OpenBSD, support for Intel GPUs...
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MySQL. It is available on Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, QNX, macOS and Windows XP and later. OpenVPN is available for mobile operating systems...
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Privilege separation (section OpenBSD)
mind is Dovecot. Separation of privileges is one of the major OpenBSD security features. OpenSSH uses privilege separation to ensure pseudo terminal (pty)...
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Securing OpenBSD From Us To You". www.openbsd.org. BSDCan 2015 (June), Ottawa, Canada. Retrieved July 12, 2022. "OpenBSD 5.5". www.openbsd.org. Retrieved...
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Retrieved 2013-05-12. "apache-httpd-openbsd-1.3.20140502p2 – OpenBSD improved and secured version of Apache 1.3". OpenBSD ports. Archived from the original...
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Nginx (category Software using the BSD license)
Docker adoption". 13 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018. "OpenBSD Upgrade Guide: 5.1 to 5.2". openbsd.org. 6 November 2012. "Heads Up: Nginx Removed From Base"...
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Dunwoodie's implementation for OpenBSD, written in C. Ryota Ozaki's wg(4) implementation for NetBSD, written in C. The FreeBSD implementation is written in...
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designed for scalability, high performance and high availability. OpenBSD, an open source operating system which includes its own implementations of BGP...
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/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf as of systemd 207). Default setting for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Mac OS X is to have window scaling (and other features related...
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Retrieved 26 October 2011. "OpenBSD: Platforms". OpenBSD. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2019. "Platforms Supported by NetBSD". NetBSD.org. Retrieved 9 December...
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/dev/random (section BSD systems)
2024-06-15. random(4) – OpenBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual deraadt, ed. (2014-07-21). "libc/crypt/arc4random.c". BSD Cross Reference, OpenBSD src/lib/. Retrieved...
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